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Many Spanish words are of Arabic origin - What's your favorite?

The fact that the Arabs were so long living in the Iberian Peninsula has made many of the words we use today have Arab roots. No less than 4,000 terms of Spanish have their origin in this language, such as

arroz

aceituna

guitarra

jaqueca

máscara

rincón

sandía

tarea

taza

azúcar

naranja

baño

aceite

zanahoria

jirafa

daga

chisme

jinete

barrio

almohada

4. Feb. 2020 00:02

Kommentare · 13

Roughly Half of my Spanish ancestors were forced out of Spain after the final Reconquista..

They came to Colonize Nuevo México with Oñate in 1598, but had left Spain before that, living in North Africa and the Canary islands..

The Muslim Rulership of Spain was somewhat more Tolerant than the Catholic Kings..

4. Februar 2020

my favorite is hasta حتى

27. März 2020

Que tal? It is pronounced like the Arabic phrase, Kaifa-al-hal? كيفَ الحالWhich means how are you.

El toro-ox- ثور thor

27. März 2020

Expulsión de los moriscos y Decreto de la Alhambra

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversions_of_Muslims_in_Spain" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversions_of_Muslims_in_Spain</a>;

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhambra_Decree</a>;

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Moriscos</a>;

4. Februar 2020

In English, we have a few, though not as many as Spanish. I think most or all of them have Spanish cognates. Alcohol, coffee, albatross, alfalfa, almanac, caravan, chess (ajedrez) and rook and checkmate, cotton (algodón), magazine, sherbet and sorbet, orange and lemon and tangerine.

And of course the names of most stars are Arabic. Aldebaran, Alioth, Algol, Deneb, Fomalhaut, Mizar, Rigel, Spica, Vega.

4. Februar 2020