A surprising number of common English food and beverage words have Arabic backgrounds. Spanish absorbed many Arabic words during the centuries that the Moors occupied the Iberian Peninsula, 711 to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arabic is one of the world’s most widely spoken languages with at least 400 million speakers, including 200 million native ...