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Axarquía

mountainous district east of Málagacomarca montañosa al este de Málaga

Comes from Arabic

الشَّرْقِيَّة

ash-sharqiyya

“the eastern (region)”«la (región) oriental»

Arabic today says

الشَّرْقِيَّة

ash-sharqiyya

And it still does

Root

ش ر ق

sh-r-q

The article

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

The story

Arabic sh is a sun letter: al-sharqiyya is pronounced ash-sharqiyya, and the old x (which sounded like sh) preserves it: A-xarquía. Egypt today has a governorate with the same name, ash-Sharqiyya.La sh árabe es letra solar: al-sharqiyya se pronuncia ash-sharqiyya, y la x antigua (que sonaba sh) la conserva: A-xarquía. En Egipto hay hoy una provincia con el mismo nombre, ash-Sharqiyya.

In a sentence

La Axarquía produce mangos y aguacates.

The Axarquía grows mangoes and avocados.

تُنْتِج الشَّرْقِيَّة المَانْجُو وَالأَفُوكَادُو.

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