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Arabic influence on the Spanish language overwhelmingly dates from the Muslim era of the Iberian Peninsula between 711 and 1492. The influence results mainly from the large number of Arabic loanwords and derivations in Spanish, plus a few other less obvious effects.
Jan 29, 2019 · Perhaps the biggest surprise of all, however, is that Spanish has been significantly influenced by Arabic. According to philologist Rafael Lapesa, a Spanish historian and former director of the Spanish Royal Academy, about 4,000 words of modern Spanish come from Arabic.
It is estimated that there are about one thousand Arabic roots and approximately three thousand derived words, making a total of around four thousand words or 8% of the Spanish dictionary. See Influences on the Spanish language for more on how the number of Arabisms in Spanish has been estimated.
This article deals with the study of lexical units of Arabic origin in Spanish, the analysis of historical factors as well as the division of arabisms into the main semantic groups of borrowings from Arabic. For many centuries, the Spanish culture has experienced a great influence of Arabic world.
May 1, 2024 · The broad range of Arabisms found in Spanish can be attributed to certain cultural and social changes that took place under Arab-Muslim rule in the Iberian Peninsula between 711 and 1492 and during the period following the so-called “Reconquista” of Spain by the Christian kingdoms to the north.
however, can be found in the Spanish language, which adopted approximately four thousand words (Arabisms) during the period of Islamic domination in the region, reflecting eight percent of the Spanish lexicon today (Pharies, 2007, “The Muslim Invasion”, pp. 40-44).
Nov 24, 2016 · Discover Arabisms in Spanish. Spanish and Arabic existed side by side. Literally thousands of Arabic words had become part of modern Spanish.
