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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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Nostralian 2y ago

I read the other day that the word slave comes from Slav, Eastern Europeans, due the vast quantities of Slavic slaves traded in the past. Fascinating how languages evolve and influence each other.

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9a013727... 2y ago

Also ciao from Venetian language means slave. It's a way of saying "at your disposal" the salute way of using this word

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9a013727... 2y ago

Ciao come from sciavo, Venice being near slavic balcanic countries very likely it's the same root

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Nostralian 2y ago

Yes I read that in the same book. The Silk Roads: A new history of the world, by Peter Frankopan. Great book.