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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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9a013727... 2y ago

I always thought it was s Greek work, "portocali" that means orange. Also in Venetian language portogalo means orange

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