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Portuguese here - many Portuguese words have origin from Arabic as Portugal has been conquered and occupied by "the Moors" in 8th~13th century. That's a long ti
by txbrown 2mo ago
Portuguese here - many Portuguese words have origin from Arabic as Portugal has been conquered and occupied by "the Moors" in 8th~13th century. That's a long time!
Alentejo, Aljezur, Algarve, and many of the cities in the Southern part of the country have have Arabic origins.
- portugueasey 2mo agoSo much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem. It’s funny how many words we use in Portuguese and Spanish that have their origin in the Moorish time.
- heyjamesknight 2mo agoArab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.
- forinti 2mo agoSome words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim. And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
- rescbr 2mo agoI'm Brazilian and I had never connected "insha'Allah" to "oxalá". Wow, TIL. At least we were taught in school that if a word starts with "al" then there is a big chance it has roots in Arabic.
- a34729t 2mo agoAnd the surname "matamoros"!
- opminion 2mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros
- ASalazarMX 2mo ago> The Christians marched on the cry of ¡Dios ayuda a Santiago! "God save St. James!". They slew more than 5000 Muslims and James became known as "Matamoros". OK, I'm going to go out on a tangent, and put this SE topic where they discuss why "James" is the English equivalent of "Santiago", because it didn't seem reasonable. https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/4588/why-is-santiago-the-equivalent-of-james https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/4588/why-is-sant...