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Mozarabs

Mozarabs is the plural of Mozarab.

Meaning of Mozarab

Noun

Mozarab (plural Mozarabs)

  1. An Iberian Christian living under Arab domination.
    • The Mozarabs were bilingual in Romance and Arabic and lived along the border area (north of the border to be precise) between Christian Iberia and Al-Andalus. This particular community sought to remain bilingual because it derived its identity from being both Arab-like and Christian.2011, Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, American Speech, vol. 86, no. 4, Maintaining a Language of Culture: Outcomes of Medieval Iberian Shift as a Predictor for Spanish in the American Southwest, p. 417

Questions about Mozarabs

What is Mozarabs the plural of?
Mozarabs is the plural of Mozarab.

Words near Mozarabs in the dictionary

  1. Mozarab
  2. Mozarabian
  3. Mozarabic
  4. Mozarabite
  5. Mozarabites
  6. Mozarabs
  7. mozarkite
  8. MOzarks
  9. Mozart
  10. Mozart and Liszt
  11. Mozart ball

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