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Disputed: Specialists disagree — read the note.Science & games · Common

almanaque

almanac — a calendar with astronomical data and notable datescalendario con datos astronómicos y efemérides

Comes from Arabic

المَنَاخ

al-manākh

“in Andalusi Arabic, the calendar”«en andalusí, el calendario»

Arabic today says

تَقْوِيم

taqwīm

The article

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

The story

That it came from Andalusi Arabic al-manākh is accepted; what is debated is where Andalusi got it: Late Greek, Syriac and Latin have all been proposed, and its link to Arabic manākh ("climate") is uncertain.Que llegó del árabe andalusí al-manākh está aceptado; lo discutido es de dónde lo sacó el andalusí: se han propuesto el griego tardío, el siríaco o el latín, y su relación con el árabe manākh («clima») no es segura.

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