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Muzarab

Muzarab is the archaic form 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

Forms of Muzarab

pluralMuzarabs

Questions about Muzarab

What is Muzarab the archaic form of?
Muzarab is the archaic form of Mozarab.

Words near Muzarab in the dictionary

  1. muzakal
  2. muzaked
  3. muzaking
  4. muzaks
  5. muzaky
  6. Muzarab
  7. Muzarabic
  8. Muzarabs
  9. Muzawwara
  10. Muzawwarah
  11. Muzbee

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