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tahona

bakery; formerly, a mill driven by horses or mulespanadería; antes, molino movido por caballerías

Comes from Arabic

طَاحُونَة

ṭāḥūna

“mill”«molino»

Arabic today says

مَخْبَز

makhbaz

Root

ط ح ن

ṭ-ḥ-n

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

First it was the flour mill, and later the bread oven that usually went with it. The ḥ gave the silent h of tahona.Primero fue el molino de harina, y después el horno de pan que solía ir con él. La ḥ dio la h muda de tahona.

In a sentence

Compramos el pan en la tahona de la esquina.

We buy our bread at the bakery on the corner.

نَشْتَرِي الخُبْزَ مِنَ المَخْبَزِ الَّذِي عَلَى النَّاصِيَة.

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