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mozárabe

Mozarab — a Christian who lived in al-Andalus under Muslim rulecristiano que vivía en al-Andalus bajo gobierno musulmán

Comes from Arabic

مُسْتَعْرَب

mustaʿrab

“Arabized”«arabizado»

Arabic today says

مُسْتَعْرِب

mustaʿrib

Root

ع ر ب

ʿ-r-b

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

They spoke Arabic and lived in the Arab way, but kept their Christian faith. Their Romance speech, sometimes written in Arabic letters, is also called Mozarabic.Hablaba árabe y vivía a la manera árabe, pero conservaba su fe cristiana. Su habla romance, a veces escrita con letras árabes, también se llama mozárabe.

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