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Mozarab

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One of a group of Spanish Christians who adopted certain aspects of Moorish culture but continued to practice Christianity when Muslim rulers governed southern Spain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of those Christians in Spain who lived among and measurably assimilated themselves to the Moslems, but continued in the exercise of their own religion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Same as muzarab, muzarabic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An Arabic-speaking Iberian Christian living under Arab domination.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish Mozárabe, from Arabic musta‘rib, would-be Arab, active participle of ista‘raba, to become an Arab, adopt Arabic customs, from ‘arab, Arab.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Spanish mozárabe, from Arabic مستعرب‎ (musta'rab, "Arabized").

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equivalents (1)

Other words for 'Mozarab'

  1. Mozarabic

variants (2)

Variants

  1. muzarab
  2. muzarabic

relateds (2)

relateds

  1. Arab
  2. Mozarabic

cross-references (1)

Cross-references

  1. Wikipedia article on Mozarabs

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