IS PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE INFLUENCED BY ARABIC

Luis Zalot   Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:18 pm GMT
Yeah it is true, northern african (arabic) Melody guitars etc. Even some words in the Portuguese language have "arabic" words not used in Castilian spanish.
Gringo   Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:45 am GMT
««I even heard that portuguese national music FADO its influenced by arabic melody. »»

Fado from Latin Fatu means fate or destiny. No one really knows its origin. The first references to what may have been fado first appear in Brazil related to the African lundum. Fado appears in Portugal only in the XIX century and there are several theories for its origin:


1-African via Brazil (brought by sailors or students.)
2-Galician-Portuguese medieval Cantigas de Amor.
3- The Arab "ouds" from the times of Al-Andaluz.

Or it is just a mixture of all the above.
JR   Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:44 am GMT
<<Alface,Almondegas,Alface,Oxala,Algarve,Alcoitão,Alcacer,Alma,Almofada, Além,Silves,Alfama.>>

Portuguese words adopted from Arabic, or influenced by Arabic.
Gringo   Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:17 am GMT
Silves - the Konii called it Zilb; the Romans called it Cilpes. Obviously not an Arab name.

Alma - from Latin Anima.

Além - from arc. alende < Lat. ad + ille + inde.
Kendra   Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:29 pm GMT
Continental Portuguese does use many Arabic words like alforreca (jellyfish) or alfazema (lavand). In Brazil, non Arabic- words like água-viva (or medusa) /jellyfish/ and lavanda /lavand/ are preferred. So, the number of Arab words in Brazilian Portuguese is much lower.
Gringo   Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:52 pm GMT
««So, the number of Arab words in Brazilian Portuguese is much lower.»»
But the number of Arab-Brazilians is soooo big. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Brazilian
Kendra   Fri Mar 17, 2006 2:29 pm GMT
Sabrina Sato
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Sabrina SatoSabrina Sato Rahal (born February 4, 1981, in Penápolis, São Paulo) is a Brazilian celebrity. She is half Japanese (maternal side), 1/4 Swiss and 1/4 Lebanese (paternal side). She was a cast member of the third season of the reality television program "Big Brother Brasil", ranking in 6th place.

Currently, she is a member of a radio/tv comedy group called Pânico ("Panic").

She posed nude twice for Playboy (she was the first Asian Brazilian to be on the cover)

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Luciana Gimenez
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Luciana Gimenez Morad (born November 3, 1969 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian model and tv show hostess. Luciana started her model career at age 13, and has worked in many cities around the world, such as Paris, Hamburg, Milan and New York.


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Good to know many famous Brazilians don't have a trace of Portuguese blood in their veins.
Marinheiro   Thu May 25, 2006 3:33 pm GMT
We started our expansion a thousand years ago in Entre-Douro-e-Minho.
We have conquered Coimbra, Lisboa, Alentejo, Algarve, Madeira, Açores, São Paulo, Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Amazonas, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul, oh God, what a Trip !
Thank's for the Almorávidas e Almoádas that once upon a time invaded us !
Nobody would like more the Arabs and Moors than our Warrior People.
May the Alcácer Quibir ghosts show the way for the Redemption !

In Brazil we can use "represa" or "açude" as a linguistic methodology to find the northern or southern origin of the colonizers.

Mind the gap !

Delenda Islam est
moço   Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:27 pm GMT
The most ancient writings recently found in the south Portugal, means that the pre-portuguese language is the world-proto-language, spoken before romans in a region today known as Algarve, in the konii kingdom.