ARABIC INFLUENCE ON SPANISH: Etymology and Origin of Arabic Words in Spanish

Hello guys, this is the first video of a new series on my channel about the

etymology

and culture of the Spanish language because learning a language involves much more than just learning the vocabulary, grammar and strategies to learn it, there is a lot to do. learned from the culture of a language and to do so we need to look a little at the history of the language and other languages ​​that have

influence

d Spanish so that you can better familiarize yourself with the Spanish language and culture and, if you have not, already remember to subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications so you can watch these new videos as soon as they come out, so today we are going to start with the Arabic

influence

on the Spanish language, so we will learn some of the Castilian Spanish

words

that are derived from Arabic, But before getting into the

words

and how they relate to Arabic, it is important to understand a little about the Arabic influence on Spanish and how Arabic cultures spread throughout Spain to influence its vocabulary. and its art and traditions and how it really is still part of modern Spain, so with the first group of Muslims came to Spain on the Iberian Peninsula in the year 711 and it's funny who is luminous, we are in Spain for a long time. throughout their conquest until 1492 or at the beginning, just a couple of days after 1492, so in 1491, a couple of days later, like January 2, I think 1492 and during these years, the Arabs developed a presence in Spain and in the Spanish language, today there are around 4000 Arabic words in the Spanish language.

Now they are not exactly the same as Arabic words, but they are very similar to the derivatives of these words and in some cases they are the same words. only with the Roman alphabet or orthography, now the Arabic influence was mainly, as I mentioned at the beginning of this video, mainly in Castilian Spanish, they were mainly in the center and south of Spain, but they had some influence throughout Spain and throughout the Iberian Peninsula. So now we are going to get into a vocabulary that is Spanish derived from Arabic. Many of these words you have probably already heard but perhaps you did not realize that they were of Arabic

origin

, so our first word we will look at is al.

Hilah and ojala means hopefully in English but it comes from Arabic and means Masha Allah which means God willing, now we can use this word as an expression with K game hopefully or we can also use it as oh haha ​​so let's go to do. an example using Ohana and another example using ojala que Ohana es des pian is a space and this means I hope you are happy and oh well and remember when you use Ohana activate the subjunctive because it is I hope it is a wish a wish so you are going to use the subjunctive I hope it's espeon says Happy and we can use ojala que ojala that someone lui era I hope someone hears it like in English, how sometimes you can use that and other times not use it like I hope someone can hear it or I hope someone can hear it or you can use all holla or you can use okay that's okay and it's similar to using that in English in those contexts oh hell okay I live in the Lowell era and our next word is step which comes from the Arabic word Hatta and if there is Anyone watching this video who speaks Arabic, sorry, I don't speak Arabic.

I'm going to do my best to pronounce these words that come from Arabic, but I probably pronounced them horribly wrong, so I'm sorry in advance for my Arabic pronunciation in this video, so it even comes from the Arabic word hata, which basically means the same thing. which in Arabic and means until in English, okay, so a couple of examples using until when. zICA and see you back and this just means have a good trip and I'll see you when you get back, so I think I asked it like see you later see you later, it means pretty much the same thing in this context. a slightly more complex sentence so that you can expand your vocabulary and the structure of the sentence in Spanish windy there is the turn and our second example is the company to the door he walk her to the door the company to the door our next word is asuka and this comes directly from the Arabic word sopa has the same word and means sugar in English, so Arabic and Spanish in this case I think they have the same pronunciation and a couple of examples that use asuka in Spanish are Emilio masa sopa corral tasin I have added more sugar to the bowl and Jael masazuka al-hasan and I hope you will take our soup cart in a cafe.

I hope you have sugar in your coffee. It's joyful. Tomas Asuka in M ​​cafe. Next we have the word ICT which means oil in English and. comes from the Arabic word is 8 and the examples that use s8 are three lives in the oil well Hot since telling someone to fry them in hot oil, then maybe if you work in greasy fast food in the oil bian Caliente and our second For example, I was checking the engine oil. The next one we'll look at is animal, which means pillow in English and this comes from the Arabic word me hava which is and I don't see in Arabic a. word that gradually became more animal-like in Spanish became and Mukalla in Iberian always used to mean cushion or pillow, so a couple of examples we are going to look at with Adam wada, our opinion on kieta and Alma wada and this means that was restless lying on his pillow, say a key, although in kieta in Lima, where our second example is to say directly no in La Mirada steel his eyes, he rested on the pillow and closed his eyes, he said directly no in al-majalah steel the . eyes the word neighborhood also comes from the Arabic word for border and in English this means neighborhood the neighborhood nothing in front the neighborhood has become different the neighborhood says a different tornado or we could say something like if we lived in a nice residential neighborhood the via nose and the residents of Lindo barrio see that we lived in a nice neighborhood if we see and Lindo barrio is a resident of CL and our next word that I said is something funny because it was brought to Spain by the Moors and they brought the game of chess, which is a hits des it's chess and they brought it to Spain in 711 when they arrived, it was

origin

ally spelled like that and then changed to the modern spelling of headrest, so a couple of examples with a headdress that Andrés Partida obtained are hybrids. played three games of chess who got Andrew's party on Thursday dressed as AAHA and the Fathers who got an address with me you can play chess with me both Azuga I will address me next we have the word assassin which means murderer in English and this was used by the Christians during the crusades and was used to refer to Muslims who murder Christian leaders and our examples with this word this murderer is weak without also this murderer is very careful this murderer is weak without also and LSSC does not escape or from both castles LSSC not escape from the gun castles the murderers escaped in both cases and our last word that we will see in this video is the anti prep, which is very similar to the English algebra 2 prize because there were many contributions of Muslims to mathematics. and science prize originates from the Arabic word algebra which literally means assembly of broken parts Marisol also obtained a couple of examples using this word for others is where they consult our second son Manuel of elementary algebra and the last one we have a class of we have In algebra class we have an algebra class and that's all because of the Arabic influence on Spanish.

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