alfaquí
faqih, a scholar of Islamic lawsabio en la ley islámica
Comes from Arabic
الفَقِيه
al-faqīh
“the jurist, the one who knows fiqh”«el jurista, el que conoce el fiqh»
Arabic today says
فَقِيه
faqīh
And it still does
Root
ف ق ه
f-q-h
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
The story
Fiqh is Islamic jurisprudence; the final Arabic h was lost in Spanish.El fiqh es la jurisprudencia islámica; la h final árabe se perdió en español.
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