Marruecos

From Old Leonese [Term?], from Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš).

Marruecos m

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

Borrowed from Spanish Marruecos.

Marruecos

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

Borrowed from Spanish Marruecos.

Marruecos

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

From Arabic مَرَّاكُش (marrākuš). First documented in the Cid. It would have been first borrowed into Romance in a shape like /maˈrɔkos/, with /ɔ/ rendering an Arabic [ɒː] or similar (cf. Old Galician-Portuguese Marrocos). It seems that en route to Castille it was “translated” into /maˈru͡ekos/ according to the cross-dialectal correspondence /ɔ/ ⇄ /u͡e/ (as in Portuguese forte ⇄ Spanish fuerte).

• IPA^(key): /maˈru͡ekos/

Marruecos ?

1. Marrakech (a city in the Almoravid emirate)

• Spanish: Marruecos
  • → Central Huasteca Nahuatl: Marruecos
  • → Central Nahuatl: Marruecos
  • → Guaraní: Marruéko
  • → Tagalog: Marwekos
  • → Western Huasteca Nahuatl: Marruecos

From Old Spanish Marruecos (“Marrakech”), from Arabic مُرَّاكُش (murrākuš).

• IPA^(key): /maˈrwekos/ [maˈrwe.kos]

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• Rhymes: -ekos
• Syllabification: Ma‧rrue‧cos

Marruecos m

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)

• → Central Huasteca Nahuatl: Marruecos
• → Central Nahuatl: Marruecos
• → Guaraní: Marruéko
• → Tagalog: Marwekos
• → Western Huasteca Nahuatl: Marruecos

Borrowed from Spanish Marruecos.

Marruecos

1. Morocco (a country in North Africa)