LA INFLUENCIA ARABE EN EL IDIOMA ESPAOL La presencia rabe en Espaa durante casi un milenio dej un patrimonio histrico de incalculable valor, cuya ms genuina expresin est contenida en el habla y reflejada en la lengua. El avance cultural de los musulmanes hizo que se impusieran trminos de todo tipo (jurdicos, agricultura), que no tenan correspondencia en las estructuras sociales de los cristianos. El elemento rabe fue, despus del latino, el ms importante del vocabulario espaol hasta el siglo XVI. La presencia musulmana desde el ao 711 hasta 1492 hizo que el rabe se hablara en la pennsula durante muchos siglos y por esa razn, el idioma espaol conserva ms de 4000 palabras de origen rabe. ARAB INFLUENCE ON THE SPANISH LANGUAGE The Arabs were in Spain for nearly a millennium and left a cultural heritage of incalculable value. You're probably aware of their architectural impact but they left their mark on the Spanish language too. They were well ahead in a socio-cultural sense and thus had to incorporate their own terms to describe things, especially in agriculture and jurisprudence, that literally didn't exist in the Spain of those days. After Latin, Arabic was the biggest contributor to the Spanish vocabulary, until the 16th century. Today there are still over 4000 in the Spanish vocabulary, and many are everyday words.

30. babuchas slipper

31. barrio neighborhood

32. bellota acorn

33. berenjena aubergine

34. caf coffee

35. cndil oil lamp

36. caravana caravan

37. corral yard, farmyard

38. espinicas spinach

39. fideo noodle

40. fulana whore, tart

41. gandul idler, loafer

42. guitarra guitar

43. jabal wild boar

44. jarro jug

45. mscara mask

46. mazorca cob

47. naranja orange

48. noria water wheel

49. ojal! I hope so

50. ola wave

51. retama broom

52. sanda watermelon

53. tambor drum

54. taza cup

55. zanahoria carrot

1. aceituna olive

2. acelga chard

3. adobe adobe

4. ajuar trousseau

5. alambique still

6. albahaca basil

7. albaricoque apricot

8. albornoz bathrobe

9. alcachofa artichoke

10. alcalde mayor

11. alcohol alcohol

12. alcornoque cork oak

13. aldea hamlet

14. alfalfa alfafa

15. alfiler pin

16. algodn cotton

17. almbar syrup

18. almohada pillow

19. alpargatas espadrille

20. alquitrn tar

21. alubia bean

22. arrabales outskirts

23. arrecife reef

24. arroz rice

25. atad coffin

26. azafrn saffron

27. azotea flat roof

28. azcar sugar

29. azucena white lilly