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txbrown 6 hours ago

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.

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.

a34729t 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

And the surname "matamoros"!

opminion 10 minutes ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Matamoros