Palavras de Origem Árabe Dicionarizadas em Inglês e em Espanhol

mosque \(...) Cf. early mod.F. mosquete, Sp. mezquita, Pg. mesquita, It. meschita. Eng. writers
have occas. used forms directly taken from Arabic, as masjid, mosged, muschid...
motazilite \f. Arab. mu , tazil seceder (active pple. of i , tazala to secede, 8th conj. of , azala to go)
+ -ite.
moucharaby \Fr.; corruptly a. mod.Arab. mashrabiyyah (Dozy).
Mozarab \a. Sp. Mozárabe (med.L. Mosarabes pl., and with etymologizing perversion
Mixtarabes), corrupt form of Arab. musta , rib, ‘would-be Arab’, active pple. of a verb of the
10th (desiderative) conjugation f. , arab Arab.
Mu‘allaqát \a. Arab. mu‘allaqát, lit. suspended odes, pl. of mu , allaqa.
Mudéjar \a. Sp. mudéjar, f. Arab. mudajjan permitted to remain.
mudim \Malay (now modin), prob. ad. Arab. mu‘adhdhin muezzin.
mudir \Turk. use of Arab. mudir, active pple. of adara to administer, govern (Dozy), causative
of dara to go round.
muezzin \Arabic mu‘adhdhin, active pple. of adhdhana, 2nd conjug. (frequentative) of adhana
to proclaim, f. udhn ear...
mufti \Arab. mufti, active pple. of afta (4th conjug. of fata) to give a fetwa or decision on a
point of law.
mujahidin \a. Pers., Arab. mujahidin, pl. of mujahid one who fights in a jihad or holy war: cf.
mujtahid.
mujtahid \Pers. ‘one who strives hard to acquire correct and sound views’, ‘one who has
arrived at the highest degree in knowledge of the law’; Arab. ‘one who exerts himself’.
mukhtar \ad. Arab. mukhtar chosen.
mukim \Malay, ad. Arab. muqim remaining, resident.
mullah \a. Pers., Turk., and Urdu mulla, corrupt pronunciation of Arab. maula...
mummy \a. F. momie, (= Sp., Pg. momia, It. mommia), ad. med.L. mumia, a. Arab. mumiya
an embalmed body, a mummy, f. mum wax (used in embalming).
murid \Arab. murid.
musa \mod.L., from Arabic: see muse n.4
muse \Utimately a. Arab. mauz, mauzah banana.
musellim \Arab. musallim, lit. paymaster, act. pple. of sallama to pay, 2nd conjug. of salama...
musk \a. F. musc (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.) = Pr. musc, Sp. (...) prob. a. Pers. mushk, whence
Arab. misk (whence, with Arab. prefixed article, Sp. almizcle, Pg. almiscle, almiscar); the
ultimate source is perh. Sk. mushka (Hindi mushk) scrotum, testicle...
Muslim \a. Arab. muslim, active pple. of aslama, of which the noun of action is islam...
Muslim \repr. the Arab. pl. (oblique case) muslimin
muslin \a. (...) (also used as appellative = muslin) the town of Mosul (in Arabic mauçil), where
muslin was formerly made. Cf. Sp. muselina...
musnud \Urdu masnad, a. Arab. misnad, f. sanada to lean against.
mussal \Urdu (Arabic) mash , al.
Mussulman \a. Pers. musulman, primarily an adj. f. Pers. (a. Arab.) muslim...
mutessarif \Turk., ad. Arab. mutaçarrif governor of a sanjak.
myrrh \(...) of Semitic origin (Arab. murr, Heb. mor).
nacarat \F. nacarat, supposed to be ad. Sp. and Pg. nacarado, f. nacar nacre. If this etym. is
correct, the reference is to that species of pinna which is distinguished by its red colour; but the
word has also a striking resemblance to Arab. naka , at, a red flower used in dyeing.
nadir \= F., Sp., Pg., and It. nadir, ad. Arab. nadir opposite to, over against (also used as n.). In
sense 2 used ellipt. for nadir es-semt ‘opposite to the zenith’.
naib \Arab. na‘ib a deputy: cf. nabob and nawab.
naker \(...) ad. Arab. naqarah, Pers. naqara...
naphe \a. F. naphe, naffe = Sp. nafa, nefa, It. nanfa, lanfa, ad. Arab. nafha(h) fragrance,
perfume.
naphtha \a. L. naphtha, a. Gr. náftha, possibly of Oriental origin (but Arab. and Pers. naft is
prob. from Greek)...
nard \(...) of Oriental origin: cf. Heb. ner'd' (pl. n'radim), Arab. and Pers. nardin...
naskhi \Arab. naskhi, f. nasakha to copy.
Nasrani \Arab. Naçrani, pl. Naçara cogn. with Nazarene a. and n.
nastalik \Pers., f. Arab. naskhi + ta , liq hanging.
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