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Fun fact: the Arabic word for the orange fruit "burtuqan" (Egyptian Arabic)/burtuqala (standard Arabic) is literally the Arabic word for "Portugal"

This is b/c when the Moors colonized Iberia, they used Portugal as a cultivator of oranges and shipped them across Europe & the Middle East

#funfact

#etymology

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hh 2y ago

The word "peach" means "Persian (fruit/apple)", and variations of it are the common Latin word for it (well, "peach" is a variation of it really).

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