mudéjar
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish mudéjar, from Arabic مُدَجَّن (mudajjan, “domesticated”).
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: mu‧dé‧jar
Adjective
mudéjar m or f (plural mudéjares)
Noun
mudéjar m or f by sense (plural mudéjares)
- Mudéjar (Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista)
See also
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مُدَجَّن (mudajjan, “domesticated”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mudéjar m or f (masculine and feminine plural mudéjares)
- Mudéjar
- 1887, Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta:
- Mareaba a Cristo con sus aspavientos por si tales o cuales ruinas eran bizantinas, mudéjares o lombardas con influencia mozárabe y perfiles románicos
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Noun
mudéjar m or f by sense (plural mudéjares)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mudéjar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10