| GLOSSARY OF ARAB
TERMS
Al-hámma, thermal natural
bath.
Al-hammám, usual bath of steam.
Al - bayt al maslag, lobby.
Al - bayt to the barid, place where you receive the towels.
Al-bayt al westani, temperate room.
Al-bayt al sagun, hot room.
Alcazaba, Al-qasbah, Fortified place.
Alcazar, Al-qasr, Fortress, Royal House.
Alcaicería, Al-qisariya, neighborhood with stores.
Aljama,al-yami, mosque of friday pray.
Aljibe, Al - yubb, cistern.
Albayzin, water.
Almuédano, al-muaddín, person that summons the muslim
population to pray from the minaret.
Almunia, al-munya, orchard, farm.
Ataurique, at-tauriq, Arab ornamentation of vegetable type.
Barakha, luck, blessing.
Caliph, jalifa, Arab prince that exercised the spiritual and
civil power.
Cora, kura, territorial division inside Al -Andalus.
Emir, amir, prince or Arab commander.
Hammám, bath.
Haram, main room of the mosque.
Hisba, normative study of social organization.
Kohol, antimony used as cosmetic to enhance the look
Imam, muslim that directs the pray
Madraza, al-madrasa, muslim school of studies.
Maristan, arab hospital.
Medina, Al-madinat, urban centre of a muslim city.
Mihrab, niche faced toward the Meca from which the the muslims
pray is directed.
Mocárabe, al-muqarbas, work formed by the geometric combination
of coupled prisms; it is used as vaults decoration.
Morisco, baptized Muslim that, when finishing the conquest, he
stayed in Spain.
Mozarabe, mustarab, Christian that remained as tributary in the
muslim Spain, conserving his ecclesiastical, judicial organization and
religion.
Mudejar, mudayyan, muslim which was allowed to stayed under
Christian domination as tributary, conserving his religion.
Muladí, muwaladí, Christian Hispanic that hugged islam religion
during the Muslim dominance.
Qanat, underground conduction of the water.
Rábida, rabita, muslim military fortress.
Sebka, almohade ornament that imitates a net or hive.
Sufi, of suf, muslim mystic.
Taha, taa, district.
Taifa, taifa, each one of the Kingdoms that divided the Al
Andalus, when being dissolved the caliphate.
Wali, governor of a county in the muslim state.
Zahoya, theology and mystic school. |
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