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atún

tunapez marino grande de carne muy apreciada

Comes from Arabic

التُّون

at-tūn

“the tuna”«el atún»

Arabic today says

تُونَة

tūna

The article

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

Arabic itself had taken it from Greek.

The story

From Greek thýnnos via Arabic at-tūn, with the sun letter t. The modern Arabic word tūna came back in from Italian or English.Del griego thýnnos a través del árabe at-tūn, con la t solar. La palabra árabe moderna tūna llegó otra vez desde el italiano o el inglés.

In a sentence

Un bocadillo de atún, por favor.

A tuna sandwich, please.

شَطِيرَةُ تُونَة، مِنْ فَضْلِك.

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