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Préstamos Turcos en la Lengua Española
Turkish Loanwords in the Spanish Language

Author(s): Tatiana Gorea
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: panish lexicon; loans; heritage words; cults; semi-cults; arabisms; Turkism
Summary/Abstract: The origin of Turkish loanwords in Spanish is due to certain historical-political events. This phenomenon is one of the ways of enriching the lexicon of the language and is generally motivated by extralinguistic causes that are closely related to the development of social life, politics, science and culture. The objective of this article focuses on the study of borrowings from the Turkish language, the research is based on the dictionaries of the Spanish language. A small list of the most used Turkish loanwords from the Spanish lexicon is also presented.

  • Page Range: 261-270
  • Page Count: 10
  • Publication Year: 2022
  • Language: Spanish
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