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asesino

murderer, assassinpersona que mata a otra

Comes from Arabic

حَشَّاشِين

ḥashshāshīn

“hashish users; a nickname for the Nizaris”«consumidores de hachís; apodo de los nizaríes»

Arabic today says

قَاتِل

qātil

Root

ح ش ش

ḥ-sh-sh

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It came through Italian assassino at the time of the Crusades, not from al-Andalus. The nickname was an insult from their enemies: there is no evidence that the Nizaris used hashish.Llegó por el italiano assassino, en tiempos de las Cruzadas, no desde al-Andalus. El apodo era un insulto de sus enemigos: no hay pruebas de que los nizaríes consumieran hachís.

In a sentence

La policía detuvo al asesino.

The police arrested the murderer.

قَبَضَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ عَلَى القَاتِل.

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