aduana
customs — the public office that checks goods entering and leaving a country and collects duties on themoficina pública que controla las mercancías que entran y salen de un país y cobra sus impuestos
Comes from Arabic
الدِّيوَان
ad-dīwān
“the register; the government office”«el registro; la oficina de la administración»
Arabic today says
جُمْرُك
jumruk
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.
The story
Dīwān was the state's register and its office; the same Persian word also gave Spanish diván (divan). Today's Arabic says jumruk, borrowed from Turkish.Dīwān era el registro y la oficina del Estado; de la misma palabra persa viene también diván. El árabe de hoy dice jumruk, tomado del turco.
In a sentence
Pasamos la aduana sin problemas.
We got through customs without any trouble.
عَبَرْنَا الجُمْرُكَ بِلَا مَشَاكِل.
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