Portuguese here - many Portuguese words have origin from Arabic as Portugal has been conquered and occupied by "the Moors" in 8th~13th century. That's a long time!
Alentejo, Aljezur, Algarve, and many of the cities in the Southern part of the country have have Arabic origins.
So much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem.
It’s funny how many words we use in Portuguese and Spanish that have their origin in the Moorish time.
The Christians marched on the cry of ¡Dios ayuda a Santiago! "God save St. James!". They slew more than 5000 Muslims and James became known as "Matamoros".
OK, I'm going to go out on a tangent, and put this SE topic where they discuss why "James" is the English equivalent of "Santiago", because it didn't seem reasonable.
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Portuguese here - many Portuguese words have origin from Arabic as Portugal has been conquered and occupied by "the Moors" in 8th~13th century. That's a long time! Alentejo, Aljezur, Algarve, and many of the cities in the Southern part of the country have have Arabic origins.
So much so that the controversy over the use of “insha’Allah” by non-Muslims was missed by me, Portuguese has “oxalá”, and I could not understand the problem. It’s funny how many words we use in Portuguese and Spanish that have their origin in the Moorish time.
Arab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around.
I'm Brazilian and I had never connected "insha'Allah" to "oxalá". Wow, TIL.
At least we were taught in school that if a word starts with "al" then there is a big chance it has roots in Arabic.
Some words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim.
And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
And the surname "matamoros"!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros
OK, I'm going to go out on a tangent, and put this SE topic where they discuss why "James" is the English equivalent of "Santiago", because it didn't seem reasonable.
https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/4588/why-is-sant...