List of Spanish words of Turkic origin
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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 Turkic languages. It is further divided into words that come from Kazakh
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Kazakh is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak....

, Kyrgyz
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 Tatar
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, and Turkish
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). Some of these words existed in Latin
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 as loanword
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s from other language
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s. Some of these words have alternate etymologies
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 and may also appear on a list of Spanish
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 from a different language
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.

List

  • bergamota
  • calmuco
  • caracul
  • caviar
  • chacal
  • cosaco
  • horda
  • húngaro
  • huno
  • odalisca
  • otomano
  • quiosco, kiosco
  • sorbete
  • turco
  • turquesa
  • visir
  • yogur
  • zapato

See also


janizari=yeniçeri (name given to Turkish soldiers in the Ottoman Empire)
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