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alcazar

Latin castrum 'fort' was borrowed into Aramaic and then Arabic as qaṣr 'castle, palace'; with the Arabic article it became Spanish alcázar, the Moorish palace-fortress, and English took it about 1615. Castle is its distant cousin.

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From Arabic to Ottoman Turkish, Turkish

From Spanish to Tagalog

200 BCELatin

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