Arabic exports

barrio

Arabic barrī 'of the open country, outside' gave Andalusian Arabic a word for the outskirts of a town; Spanish barrio came to mean any district, and English borrowed it in the 1830s.

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From Andalusian Arabic to Portuguese

From Andalusian Arabic to Catalan

From Spanish to Tagalog

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