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zaguán

entrance hall; the covered space at the entrance of a house, by the street doorespacio cubierto a la entrada de una casa, junto a la puerta de la calle

Comes from Arabic

أُسْطُوَان

usṭuwān

“portico, colonnade”«pórtico, galería de columnas»

Arabic today says

دِهْلِيز

dihlīz

The article

It came in without the article.

Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.

The story

Arabic usṭuwān(a) "column, portico" comes from Middle Persian. The Andalusi form, with much-changed vowels, ended up as zaguán, the entrance hall of a house.El árabe usṭuwān(a) «columna, pórtico» viene del persa medio. La forma andalusí, con vocales muy cambiadas, acabó en zaguán, el vestíbulo de la casa.

In a sentence

Esperamos en el zaguán a que dejara de llover.

We waited in the entrance hall for the rain to stop.

اِنْتَظَرْنَا فِي الدِّهْلِيزِ حَتَّى تَوَقَّفَ المَطَر.