TY - BOOK ID - 3341542 TI - Dictionary of Arabic and allied loanwords : Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and kindred dialects PY - 2008 VL - 97 SN - 9789004168589 9004168583 9786612399435 1282399438 904744311X 9789047443117 PB - Leiden Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Romance languages KW - Arabic language KW - Langues romanes KW - Arabe (Langue) KW - Foreign words and phrases KW - Arabic KW - Dictionaries. KW - Influence on Romance languages KW - Emprunts arabes KW - Dictionnaires KW - Influence sur les langues romanes KW - Iberian Peninsula KW - Ibérique, Péninsule KW - Languages KW - Dictionaries KW - Langues KW - Ibérique, Péninsule KW - Semitic languages KW - Neo-Latin languages KW - Italic languages and dialects KW - Hispania (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Hispánica, Península KW - Iberia (Iberian Peninsula) KW - Ibérica, Península KW - Península Hispánica KW - Península Ibérica UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3341542 AB - One of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, et cetera by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English. ER -