Beautiful city to visit, btw. I highly recommend.

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May 19, 2024
9:26:57pm

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Beautiful city to visit, btw. I highly recommend.

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TIL that the very common word in Spanish "Ojalá" (I hope, I wish) derives from the Arabic "Inshallah" (God-willing).

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May 19, 9:16pm

Same for the word camisa (shirt) which in Arabic is camis.

Veracruz

May 19, 9:24pm

And azucar (sugar, al-sukkar), almohada (pillow, al-mukhadda)

RSL

May 19, 9:26pm

Huge amounts of loan words and linguistic constructions

mobicurious

May 20, 4:52am

I’m reading a book on the history of Valencia

MisterFundamentals

May 19, 9:25pm

Beautiful city to visit, btw. I highly recommend.

RSL

May 19, 9:26pm

*Moops

RH84025

May 19, 9:29pm

I was always told it derived from “oja a Allah” meaning “I look to God”

AggieWeekendCougar

May 19, 9:38pm

Sounds like someone tried to make sense of it as a spanish word, not as an arabic word

Greg Kite's 'stache

May 19, 9:47pm

Colombia, but from some people in the small Lebanese community that had

AggieWeekendCougar

May 19, 11:57pm

folk etymology

Genghis Spreads

May 20, 11:10am

That's what they'd tell me at the door in Albania as they closed it on me 😉

Four-toed Creed

May 19, 9:46pm

Speaking of Moorish influence, I heard that the outside walls of Al Hambra are dull and boring but the inside was ornate

May 19, 9:57pm

And yet they have a "si Dios quiere"

ochobeeguy

May 19, 10:51pm

It's pronounced O-sha-la in Portuguese, even closer to Inshallah.

Genghis Spreads

May 20, 7:07am

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