alquiler
rent; renting, hireprecio que se paga por usar algo ajeno; arrendamiento
Comes from Arabic
الكِرَاء
al-kirāʾ
“the rent, the hire”«el arriendo, el alquiler»
In Andalusi Arabic: الكِرِي al-kirī
Arabic today says
إِيجَار
ījār
Root
ك ر ي
k-r-y
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
The story
Andalusi al-kirī (the final ā closed to i through imāla) gave Old Spanish alquilé, and from it alquilar (to rent) and alquiler. In the Maghreb people still say kirāʾ; in the East ījār is preferred.Del andalusí al-kirī (la ā final se cerró en i por la imāla) salió el castellano antiguo alquilé, y de ahí alquilar y alquiler. En el Magreb todavía se dice kirāʾ; en Oriente se prefiere ījār.
In a sentence
El alquiler del piso sube cada año.
The rent on the flat goes up every year.
يَرْتَفِعُ إِيجَارُ الشَّقَّةِ كُلَّ سَنَة.
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