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List of Spanish words of various origins

This is a list of Spanish words of various origins. It includes words from Australian Aboriginal languages, Balti, Berber, Caló, Czech, Dravidian languages, Egyptian, Greek, Hungarian, Ligurian, Mongolian, Persian, Slavic (such as Old Church Slavonic, Polish, Russian, and Croatian). Some of these words existed in Latin as loanwords from other languages. Some of these words have alternate etymologies and may also appear on a list of Spanish words from a different language.

Australian Aboriginal languages

from English , first recorded by Captain James Cook in 1770, from the Guugu Yimidhirr word .

Balti

from English (1872), from Balti , from the same family as Tibetan .

Berber

from Berber (modern Spanish ), the people of North Africa who originally bred this type of sheep.
from , from Latin , from Ancient Greek , probably of Berber origin, but possibly related to the Arabic ,from the Semitic root .
see moreno above

Caló

from Caló , see caló below
the word is possibly related to Sanskrit and/or Ancient Greek .
possibly from , feminine of and/or see calé and caló above

Dravidian languages

  • glass bead
from Arabic , from , from Ancient Greek from , from Prakrit , from Pāli ; possibly from or simply akin to a Dravidian source represented by Tamil .
  • brilliant, diamond
from , see brillar below
  • to shine
possibly from Latin , from Ancient Greek ; see abalorio above
from English , from Portuguese , from Tamil , from and .
from French , from Portuguese , from Marathi , of Dravidian origin.
  • handkerchief
shortened from , The Spanish is a partial calque of French (1788).
The Real Academia Española (Spanish Royal Academy) claims that Paliacate comes from Nahuatl and .
  • , outcast
from Tamil , literally , from , possibly from .

Egyptian

Greek

Hungarian

  • car
originally, a carriage pulled by two horses, ultimately from Hungarian , short for , the Hungarian city where carriages with suspension were first made.
from Old High German , probably derived from Hungarian (1393), literally , from .

Japanese

from Japanese
from Japanese literally , from and .

Ligurian

  • sickle
from Latin , possibly from Ligurian.

Mongolian

from Mongolian , documented first in Chinese , from uncertain source.
an honorific title from Turko-Mongol

Persian language

Aside from the fact that Persian words entered through Latin, other words of Persian origin transmitted through Arabic through the Arab Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages.

  • chess
from Arabic , from Persian from the Sanskrit , the shape of the original chess board in India.
  • assassin
from Arabic hashshshin "someone who is addicted to hashish (marijuana)," originally used to refer to the followers of the Persian Hassan-i-Sabah (), the Hashshashin.
from Persian from Arabic .
from Arabic from Persian or .
  • sugar
from Arabic , from Persian .
  • slippers, babouche, from Persian , literally meaning via Arabic .
  • bazaar, from Persian .
  • eggplant, aubergine, from Persian , of the same meaning, via Arabic .
  • caravana = caravan, from Persian کاروان kārvān, a company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants on a long journey through desert or hostile regions: a train of pack animals, thru Italian caravana, carovana.
  • caravasar = caravanserai, caravansary, kārvānsarāy is a Persian compound word combining kārvān "caravan" with sarāy "palace", "building with enclosed courts", from کاروان kārvān caravan + سرا sarā palace, large house, inn; an inn in eastern countries where caravans rest at night that is commonly a large bare building surrounding a court.
  • derviche = from Persian درویش darvish, a member of a Sufi Muslim fraternity, literally translated "mendicant".
  • diván = from Persian دیوان dēvān (="place of assembly", "roster"), from Old Persian دیپی dipi (="writing, document") + واهانم (="house")
  • escabeche: Pickle or marinade. From Persian Sekba via Arabic as-sukbaj.
  • escarlata = scarlet: from Pers. سقرلات saqerlât "a type of red cloth". a rich cloth of bright color. a vivid red that is yellower and slightly paler than apple red
  • jazmín: jasmine. From Persian yasmin via Arabic.
  • kan/jan = from Persian khan ()
  • meaning "inn", derives from Middle Persian hʾn (xān, “house”)
  • an honorific title from Turko-Mongol, adapted to Persian
  • nenúfar: Water-lily. From Persian nilofer, niloofar, niloufar, via Arabic naylufar.
  • roque = rook (chess piece), from Persian رخ rukh via Arabic روخ rukh.
  • sah = shah شاه shāh, from Old Persian 𐏋 χšāyaþiya (="king"), from an Old Persian verb meaning "to rule"
  • Teherán = Tehran (تهران Tehrân, Iranian capital), from Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Rân" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope.
  • tulipán = tulip, from Persian دلبند dulband Band = To close, To tie.
  • turbante = turban, from Persian دلبند dulband Band = To close, To tie.

Slavic languages
from Old French , from Italian , of Slavic origin: compare Russian and Polish .
from German , from Old High German , from a Western Slavic form *, from Slavic : compare Czech Serbian: /, Polish , and Russian .

Serbian

  • vampire
  • a dangerously attractive woman
from Austrian German , borrowed from Serbian /,

Czech

  • pistol
from German , from Czech
  • kalesa, a carriage with low wheels and a folding cover
from French , from German , from Czech , from Proto-Slavic , from Proto-Indo-European

Polish
from Polish

Russian

from Russian
from Medieval Latin , from , from Old Russian
from Russian
  • isba
from Russian изба izba 'log hut'

Croatian
from Italian with implicit sense , from Croatian of uncertain origin, but from the same root as Old Church Slavonic .

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