List of Spanish words of Iranian origin

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Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

words that come from Iranian languages

Iranian languages

The Iranian languages form a subfamily of the Indo-Iranian languages which in turn is a subgroup of Indo-European language family. They have been and are spoken by Iranian peoples....

. It is further divided into words that come from Avestan

Avestan language

Avestan is an East Iranian language known only from its use as the language of Zoroastrian scripture, i.e. the Avesta, from which it derives its name...

and Persian

Persian language

Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

. Some of these words existed in Latin

Latin

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as loanword

Loanword

A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept where the meaning or idiom is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself. The word loanword is itself a calque of the German Lehnwort,...

s from other language

Language

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s. Some of these words have alternate etymologies

Etymology

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and may also appear on a list of Spanish

Spanish language

words from a different language

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List

alfil
babucha
baldaquín
bazar
bezoar
caqui (color)
caravana
carcaj
casaca
chal
chalina
cheque
diván
gaceta
gasa
jaque
matador
mate (chess term)
parche
percal
persa
persiana
prisco
pi(j/y)ama
roque
serrallo
taburete
tafetán
talco
tigre
tulipán
turbante
zancada
zanco
zancudo
zumbar

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