The Green Manalishi; Son Of Sheba

resources for palestine

resources for palestine (2)

operation olive branch, a spreadsheet full of families trying to escape rafah, in case you can donate

twitter thread of fundraisers for palestine

daily click for palestine

info post about sudan

twitter thread about sudan

twitter post for the DRC

friends of the congo, a list of helpful actions you can take for the DRC

An oil mill is an almazara, from Arabic «المَعْصَرَة», transliterated 'al-maʕṣarah' from Standard Arabic and 'al-maçarah' from Andalusí Arabic. In both cases, it translates to "the squeezer," specifically referring to either a log or piled-up, rectangular planks deployed to press onto aceitunas and oily seeds to extract oil off from them.

A river water mill is a noria, from Standard Arabic «نَاعُوْرَة», transliterated 'nāʕūrah'; through Andalusí Arabic, where it was instead spelled as «نُاعُوْرِيَة», transliterated 'nóriah' ('ع' was pronounced only when at the beginning of a word in Andalusí Arabic, as seen above as well) with a diphthongal 'i' added from Euskera-infused Romance phonetics. In both cases, it translates to "roaring" (noun, not verb) from Classical Assyrian, due to the loud sound water produces when falling back onto a river.

A non-fluvial water mill is an aceña, from Arabic «السَّانِيَة», transliterated 'as-sānīah'; through Andalusí Arabic, where it was instead spelled as «السِانِيَة», transliterated 'aç-çéñah'. In both cases, it transliterates to the act of either drawing or carrying water. Also: in a few words, Andalusí Arabic developed the phoneme /ɲ/ (which we render 'ñ' in writing in Spanish, Aragonese, Leonese, Asturianu, and Galician; 'ny' in Català/Valencià/Balear; and 'nh' in Portuguese) from either 'نّ' (geminate 'n', as Iberian Romances did from Latin) or a palatalisation of the cluster 'ني' (pronounced /nj/ in all other Arabic dialects). It's also observable in words like albañil, alfeñique, and hazaña.

And both a flour mill and a bakery (as a synonym for panadería in the latter case, of course; this one from Latin "pānem" with the Iberian Romance suffix ' -ería') is a tahona, from Arabic «طَاحُوْنَة», transliterated 'ṭāḥūna' from Standard Arabic and 'tāḥónah' from Andalusí Arabic. Though it only translates to "mill" generally in the former, it more often translated to either "flour mill" or "bakery" in Andalusí Arabic, being the reason why almazaras were thus adopted into Spanish.

Similarly, though we got jarra ("jar") from Andalusí Arabic «جَرَّة» (transliterated 'jarrah') as well; if you're speaking about both an oil jar or an oil bottle, you may specifically speak about either:

An alcuza, from «الكُوْزَة», transliterated 'al-kūzah' from Standard Arabic and 'al-cúzah' from Andalusí Arabic.

Or a zafra, from «صَڢْرَاء», transliterated 'ṣafrāʔ' from Standard Arabic and 'çáfrāʔ' from Andalusí Arabic.

Oddly enough, even though we Muslims don't eat boar, the only unambiguous word for "boar" in Spanish, jabalí, comes from Arabic «جَبَلِيِّ», transliterated 'jabalī' from Standard Arabic and 'jabalí' from Andalusí Arabic. You may call a jabalí a facóquero as well, but the latter is more widely understood to be a warthog instead.

And also oddly enough, in addition: though we've long adopted pasta in Spanish to refer to pasta (from Latin "pasta," from Ancient Greek «παστά», transliterated 'pastá') in general, when referring to long pasta stripes (whether straight or curled), you may specifically speak about fideos, from Arabic «ڢِدَاوْشْ», transliterated 'fidāush' from Standard Arabic and 'fidéox' from Andalusí Arabic, where it was instead spelled as «ڢِدِاوْشْ» (y sí, el apodo del "Fideo" Di María es árabe andalusí, igual que el del "Pato" Fillol y el del "Pato" Abbondanzieri). And when referring to the thin, short pasta stripes (I've mentioned this one here before) also commonly known as cabello de ángel, you may specifically speak about aletría, from Arabic «الإِطْرِيَّة», transliterated 'al-ʔitrīah' from Standard Arabic and 'al-ʔetríah' from Andalusí Arabic.

There are quite a few more, these are just the ones I can more readily recall right now.

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