Palavras de Origem Árabe Dicionarizadas em Inglês e em Espanhol

alfridary \Of obsc. orig.; cf. Arab. farada, ‘cernere,’ to cut into, define, decree, also to define
beforehand a time, to fix on an hour; whence fariydah, n. a fixed and defined part...
Alfur \ad. Pg. alfuori ‘the outsider,’ f. Arab. al the + fuori outside:–L. foribus out of door, fores
doors. (R.N. Cust.)
algarad \a. Fr. algarade, ad. Sp. algarada ‘a sudden assault with a great crie’ (Minsheu); f.
med.L., Pg. and ? Sp. algara a raid (a. Arab. al-gharah, i.e. al the, gharah raid) + -ada.
algarroba \Sp. algarroba, ad. Arab. al-kharrubah, applied to the same.
algebra \a. (...) (also Sp. and med.L.), ad. Arab. al-jebr the redintegration or reunion of broken
parts, f. jabara to reunite, redintegrate, consolidate, restore; hence, the surgical treatment of
fractures, bone-setting. Also in phr. , ilm al-jebr wa'l-muqabalah, i.e. ‘the science of
redintegration and equation (opposition, comparison, collation),’ the Arabic name for algebraic
computation. In this sense the first part of the Arabic title was taken into It. in 1202, as algèbra;
the second part, almucabala, was used by some med.L. writers in the same sense. The 16th c.
Eng. algeber (fancifully identified by early writers with the name of the Arabic chemist Geber)
was either taken directly from Arab. or from Fr. algèbre; but the It. algèbra became the accepted
form (accented 'algebra by 1663).
Algol \ad. Arab. al ghul (see ghoul).
algorism \a. OFr. augorisme, algorisme, augorime; ad. med.L. algorism-us (cf. Sp. gua-rismo
cipher), f. Arab. al-Khowarazmi, the native of Khwarazm (Khiva), surname of the Arab
mathematician Abu Ja'far Mohammed Ben Musa, who flourished early in the 9th c., and
through the translation of whose work on Algebra, the Arabic numerals became generally
known in Europe.(...) Algorisme being popularly reduced in OFr. to augori-me, English also
shows two forms, the popular augrime, ending in agrim, agrum, and the learned algorism
which passed through many pseudo-etymological perversions, in-cluding a recent algorithm in
which it is learnedly confused with Gr. arithmós, ‘number.’
alguazil \Sp. alguazil (now alguacil), earlier forms of which in Pg. are al-vazil, al-vazir, ad.
Arab. al-wazir, i.e. al the, wazir minister, officer, f. wazara to carry, carry on, = L. gerere.
Alhagi \mod.L. (Rauwolf 1537), ad. Arab. al-haj, used by Avicenna.
Alhaji \a. Hausa, ad. Arab.: see prec.
Al-Haj(j) \a. Arab. al-hajj: see al-2 and hadji.
Alhambra \ult. ad. Arab. alhamra‘ i.e. the red (house).
alhandal \a. Arab. al-handal.
alidad(e) \In mod. form, a. Fr. alidade, in earlier, a. med.L. alhidada (cf. Sp. alhidada, alidada),
ad. Arab. al- , idadah, the revolving radius of a graduated circle; f. , add, , adid, , adud, the
humerus or upper arm (which revolves in its socket).
Alizari \Fr. and Sp., according to Devic, prob. ad. Arab. al the + , açarah juice pressed out,
extract, f. , açara to press, extract...
alkahest \first used in med.L. by Paracelsus, and believed to have been arbitrarily invented by
him with a form simulating Arabic. Used in the same forms in most of the European languages.
alkali \a. Fr. alcali, ad. (ultimately) Arab. al-qaliy, the ‘calcined ashes’ of the plants Salsola
and Salicornia, f. qalay to fry, roast in a pan; hence transferred to the plants themselves so
employed.
alkedavy \ad. (perh. indirectly) Arab. al-qadawi, i.e. al the + qadawi of the cadi or alcalde (sc.
alqaçr the palace).
alkekengi \med.L. alkekengi f. Arab. al-kakanj, al-kakenj, i.e. al the + Pers. kakanj a ‘kind of
medicinal resin from a tree growing in the mountains of Herat.’ Freytag. ‘Nightshade,’
Hopkins Pers. Dict. Cf. It. alcachengi, Sp. alquequenje...
alkermes \a. Fr. alkermès ad. (ult.) Arab. al-qirmiz, i.e. al the + qirmiz kermes.
Allah \a. Arab. allah the (true) God, contr. of al-ilah, i.e. al the + ilah god = Aram. elah, Heb.
eloah.
alma, almah \a. Arab. , almah, adj. fem. ‘learned, knowing’; f. , alama ‘to know’ (because they
have been instructed in music and dancing). Cf. Fr. almée.
almaçour, ur \a. OFr. almaçor, -ur, aumaçor, also aumansour, ad. (perh. indirectly) Arab. almançur,
the (heaven-) defended, the august, f. naçara to defend.
almadia \ad. Arab. al-ma , diyah a ferry-boat, f. , aday to cross; cf. It. almadia, Fr. almadie (also
used in Eng.).
almagest \a. OFr. almageste, ad. (ult.) Arab. al-majisti, ad. (with article al the) Gr. megíste
greatest (sc. syntaxis, composition); applied by the Arabs (and previously, it is inferred, in the
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