| ▲ | s20n 7 hours ago |
| I assumed the word was derived from "azul" but from the article, it's apparently derived from the Arabic الزليج (al-zillīj) and has no relation with "azul" |
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| ▲ | txbrown 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | portugueasey 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | | |
| ▲ | heyjamesknight 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Arab Orthodox Christians have been saying "inshallah" longer than Muslims have been around. | |
| ▲ | rescbr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | forinti 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | 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. |
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| ▲ | a34729t 25 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | And the surname "matamoros"! | | |
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| ▲ | senadir 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The arabic word for "azul" is أزرق (azraq) so they all look pretty adjacent. |
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| ▲ | Laurel1234 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Azul 100% comes from Arabic (well Persian, but through Arabic), although I think the specific Andalusian form that was borrowed was a bit different from that. |
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| ▲ | lookeey 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| interestingly, apparently "azul" also comes from the arabic "lāzuward" |
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| ▲ | vasco 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | I always thought it came from lapis lazuli (portuguese). Azul as a subpar of Lazuli even sounds exactly the same in portuguese. | | |
| ▲ | wvbdmp 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Lapis Lazuli is cognate, both come from the same Arabic/Persian root. Apparently “azure”, “azul”, “azzurro” lost the L because it got confused with the common “l’” article, | | | |
| ▲ | nudpiedo 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | And the word from arabic comes, for both of them comes from persian for hte term lapis lazuli (lāžward) and suposedly this comes from sanskrit... but I ignore how it may sound in sanskrit. | |
| ▲ | dgellow 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | In french we have “azur” |
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| ▲ | Laurel1234 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This wikipedia article, the wiktionary entry for Portuguese, and the Spanish wiktionary entry all have different etymologies lmao. As a Spanish speaker it seems really hard to believe it's not azul + -ejo. They're literally blue. |
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