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albricias

"great news!" (a cry of joy); formerly, a reward given to the bearer of good news¡qué buena noticia! (exclamación de alegría); antiguamente, regalo a quien la traía

Comes from Arabic

البُشْرَى

al-bushrā

“the good news”«la buena noticia»

Arabic today says

بُشْرَى

bushrā

And it still does

Root

ب ش ر

b-sh-r

The article

Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.

The story

Bushrā is good tidings, and whoever brought them received a gift: the albricias. The word is still alive in Arabic, and from the same root comes mubashshir, "one who announces good news".Bushrā es la buena nueva, y el que la traía recibía un regalo: las albricias. En árabe la palabra sigue viva, y de la misma raíz es mubashshir, «el que anuncia buenas noticias».

In a sentence

¡Albricias! Por fin nos han dado el piso.

Great news! We finally got the apartment.

بُشْرَى! أَخِيرًا حَصَلْنَا عَلَى الشَّقَّة.

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