50 Examples of Arabisms

Arabisms

The arabisms They are Spanish words whose origin is the Arabic language. For example: basil, lemon, lute.

The identity with which Arabic endowed Spanish is especially noticeable in some nuances of the language, such as the usual prefix al-, the pronunciation of the H in aspirated form tending to resemble a J (unlike literal Spanish which takes it as a letter without any loudness) and the suffix -i for adjectives gentile, is a denomination absolutely detached from the Arab influence.

On the other hand, many words that have a large number of equal vowels (usually A) separated in some cases by H, are also derived from the Arabic languages.

In the Middle Ages Muslim civilization had some advancements in various disciplines with respect to Christian and this made some techniques, objects and situations that were not known to Christians were assimilated directly, without the need to create a new word.

That is why most of the Arabisms are related to techniques or trades (cooking, agriculture, trade and manufactures, war), or with scientific disciplines (in mathematics, astronomy or medicine).

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Examples of arabisms

Olive	Acorn	Lute
Sugar	Cotton	Lemon
Adalitd	Drum	Dungeon
At sign	Hashish	Yemeni
Chess	Feat	Dagger
Basil	Arsenal	Algorithm
Builder	Overcoat	Carrot
Albace	Marinade	Souk
Dace	Slacker	Islam
Piggy bank	Tile	Blonde
Alcazar	Skirt	Noria
Guitar	Cobble	Nasrid
Orange	Hostage	Kermes
If only	Magnet	Imela
Homework	Dice	Set
Pillow	Customs	Escaque

History of Arabisms

During the Middle Ages (which includes the end of the first millennium and the first half of the second) the Arab presence in the territory that today is Spain and Portugal was almost total, and the interactions between Muslims and Christians were permanent. Caliphates (like the one in the Córdoba region), emirates and kingdoms even came into being.

The enormous interaction between cultures also had an impact on a literary, architectural, and even artistic level, endowing the entire Middle Ages with some very own characteristics.
Like the rest of the languages whose origin is the Iberian Peninsula, Spanish was from its beginnings linked to the Arabic language. The existence of bilingual people allowed the birth of a large number of commercial interactions and, According to the different reigns of the Iberian region, the acceptance of the Arabic language occurred more or less grade.

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