{"id":103,"date":"2007-10-17T10:23:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-17T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=103"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:57:22","slug":"arabic-influence-on-portuguese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/arabic-influence-on-portuguese\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Influence on Portuguese"},"content":{"rendered":"

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500 years of Moorish influence will leave a linguistic mark!<\/b><\/p>\n

The period in which the Moors ruled Spain (roughly from 700 to 1500 common era), also affected Portugal quite a bit. It wasn’t until 1250 that the Moors were expelled from Portugal, and by that point the Arabic language had made quite an impact on the vocabulary of the Portuguese language<\/p>\n

Though the Arabic influence can be seen in common words such as cenoura<\/b> carrot<\/em>, bairro<\/b> neighborhood<\/em>, and xadrez<\/b> chess<\/em>, the bulk of the cognate (in many cases identical) words begin with the letter A<\/b>. This phenomenon is easily explained; words beginning with al<\/b> or ar<\/b> in Portuguese often are cognate with an Arabic noun starting with al-<\/b>. Example: the Portuguese word for lettuce<\/em> is alface<\/b> which comes from the Arabic word al-kha\u00e7<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Here are two free BYKI Lists of the most common<\/em> words of this type in Brazilian Portuguese<\/b><\/p>\n

Learning these words is very helpful for ordering food and reading menus in particular. You will notice that many many Portuguese words for food come from Arabic. Who knew?<\/p>\n

For a longer list of these words, check out wiki<\/a>, and for an entertaining article by a seasoned traveler, read this piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Andr\u00e9 Barbosa for the audio recording!
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500 years of Moorish influence will leave a linguistic mark! The period in which the Moors ruled Spain (roughly from 700 to 1500 common era), also affected Portugal quite a bit. It wasn’t until 1250 that the Moors were expelled from Portugal, and by that point the Arabic language had made quite an impact on…<\/p>\n

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