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Influência Árabe na Língua Portuguesa

Arabic Influence on the Portuguese Language

Have you ever wondered about the origins of the Portuguese language? Throughout history, the Iberian Peninsula was populated and governed by several different nations. This rich and fascinating blend of influences is reflected in both our language and our culture. (Note: This episode is a rare exception to our “Shorty” format, as it is about 5 minutes in duration)

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  • 00:00:03Ao longo dos milénios, a Península Ibérica foi povoada e governada por vários povos,
  • 00:00:09que se cruzaram entre si, misturando culturas, costumes e conhecimentos.
  • 00:00:16Um desses povos, os mouros,foram os que deixaram o maior legado na cultura portuguesa.
  • 00:00:23Tudo começou no ano 711, com a Invasão Islâmica da Península Ibérica que pôs fim ao Reino Visigodo
  • 00:00:33Conquistando quase toda a península, os mouros deram-lhe o nome de “al-Andalus”.
  • 00:00:40Ao fim de 800 anos, a sua presença no território ibérico terminou,
  • 00:00:45como resultado da “Reconquista”, nome dado à expansão dos reinos cristãos.
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Comments

  • Olá o equipe de (da/do?) Practice Portuguese. Adoro todos esses episódios históricos e culturais, como muitos do nível C1. Continuem com o ótimo trabalho! E muito obrigada!

  • It makes sense when a language adopts words from another to give names to new things – things that have been introduced by a foreign culture. So for example ‘alfândega’ makes sense to me because the Moors must have introduced the new concept of customs tariffs, but I’ve never understood why ‘alcançar’ would have been adopted, assuming it really is a word derived from Arabic. Did people have no native word for ‘to reach’ before the Moors? Reaching can’t have been a new concept introduced by the invaders. I suppose the necessity for local people to communicate with the occupiers meant that certain new words came into common use simply for convenience, even though there was already a word in the native language, and then the new word just stuck. Is there still a non Arabic-derived Portuguese word for ‘to reach’? I also wonder about ‘azeitona’; didn’t the Romans bring olive cultivation to Iberia, in which case why didn’t Portugal stick with the Roman word, as it has done with ‘oliveira’ for the olive tree? It’s all very fascinating.

    • Olá! ‘Alcançar’ is an exception, since it derives from Latin (incalciare). As for ‘azeitona’, I wonder the same 🙂 Dictionaries will show you the word ‘oliva’, but it has fallen pretty much completely out of use in Portugal. Brazilians still use the word as part of the expression ‘azeite de oliva’ (olive oil), but otherwise, they also use ‘azeitona’ to refer to the fruit itself.

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