alubia
bean (kidney bean, haricot)judía, frijol
Comes from Arabic
اللُّوبِيَا
al-lūbiyā
“the bean”«la judía»
Arabic today says
فَاصُولْيَا
fāṣūlyā
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
Arabic itself had taken it from Greek.
The story
L is a sun letter, so al-lūbiyā is said with a double l, and it became alubia. Today in the Levant lūbya is the green bean or the black-eyed pea; the common bean is called fāṣūlyā.La l es letra solar, así que al-lūbiyā se dice con l doble, y quedó alubia. Hoy lūbya en el Levante es la judía verde o el frijol de ojo negro; la judía común se llama fāṣūlyā.
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