From Latin 'fabrica' (workshop) via Old French—the same root gives us fabric and fabricate.
A workshop containing a furnace where metal is heated and shaped by hammering; also, the furnace itself.
From Old French 'forge,' from Latin 'fabrica' (workshop, art of the smith), from 'faber' (craftsman, smith). The Latin word also gave us 'fabric'—originally any product of skilled workmanship, not just cloth. Key roots: faber (Latin: "craftsman, smith, maker