{"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":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/meanestindian\/641894837\/\" aria-label=\"641894837 574511d9ff M\"><img decoding=\"async\"  alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1171\/641894837_574511d9ff_m.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>500 years of Moorish influence will leave a linguistic mark!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The period in which the Moors ruled Spain (roughly from 700 to 1500 common era), also affected Portugal quite a bit. It wasn&#8217;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<p>Though the Arabic influence can be seen in common words such as <b>cenoura<\/b> <em>carrot<\/em>, <b>bairro<\/b> <em>neighborhood<\/em>, and <b>xadrez<\/b> <em>chess<\/em>, the bulk of the cognate (in many cases identical) words begin with the letter <b>A<\/b>. This phenomenon is easily explained; words beginning with <b>al<\/b> or <b>ar<\/b> in Portuguese often are cognate with an Arabic noun starting with <b>al-<\/b>. Example: the Portuguese word for <em>lettuce<\/em> is <b>alface<\/b> which comes from the Arabic word <b>al-kha\u00e7<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here are two free BYKI Lists of the <em>most common<\/em> words of this type in Brazilian Portuguese<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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<p>For a longer list of these words, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/pt.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lista_de_palavras_portuguesas_de_origem_%C3%A1rabe\">wiki<\/a>, and for an entertaining article by a seasoned traveler, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.useless-knowledge.com\/1234\/oct\/article133.html\">this piece<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><em>Thanks to Andr\u00e9 Barbosa for the audio recording!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/meanestindian\/641894837\/\">meanest indian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"175\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2007\/10\/641894837_574511d9ff_m.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>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. 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