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jabalí

wild boarcerdo salvaje

Comes from Arabic

جَبَلِيّ

jabalī

“of the mountain, wild”«montés, de la montaña»

Arabic today says

خِنْزِير بَرِّيّ

khinzīr barrī

Root

ج ب ل

j-b-l

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It is an adjective: khinzīr jabalī, "mountain pig". Spanish kept only the adjective, as if we said "the mountain one".Es un adjetivo: khinzīr jabalī, «cerdo montés». El castellano se quedó solo con el adjetivo, como si dijéramos «el montés».

In a sentence

Vimos un jabalí en el bosque.

We saw a wild boar in the forest.

رَأَيْنَا خِنْزِيرًا بَرِّيًّا فِي الغَابَة.

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