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Aljarafe

plateau and district west of Sevillemeseta y comarca al oeste de Sevilla

Comes from Arabic

الشَّرَف

ash-sharaf

“the height, the high ground”«la altura, el terreno elevado»

Arabic today says

المُرْتَفَع

al-murtafaʿ

Root

ش ر ف

sh-r-f

The article

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

The story

Unlike Axarquía, here Spanish wrote al- without assimilation (Al-jarafe). Sharaf meant "height"; today it is understood almost only as "honor".A diferencia de Axarquía, aquí el castellano escribió al- sin asimilar (Al-jarafe). Sharaf significaba «altura»; hoy se entiende casi solo como «honor».

In a sentence

Desde el Aljarafe se ve toda Sevilla.

From the Aljarafe you can see all of Seville.

مِن الشَّرَف تُرَى إِشْبِيلِيَة كُلّهَا.

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