>Another word that surprised me to have come from Arabic is admiral, from "amir". > >And word algebra comes from the title of Mohammad al-Horezmi's "al gebr al mukabala" - "about moving from one side to another" (of equal sign). > >And another piece of science trivia: the word zenith comes from Arabic zemt - where the guy who copied the Latin transcription spotted a little blot above the "m" and thought it was a "ni" :)
The Spanish and Portuguese languages are peppered with Arabic words, coming from the eight centuries of Arabic occupation of the southern Iberian peninsula
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