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Thousands and thousands. The book Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish [BOBS] by Joseph J. Keenan gives the figure of more than 4,000 (pg. 168). Some Spanish words are Arabic-influenced like "ojalá from "wa-sa Allah" (En: "May Allah wish it") . Others are direct translations. Words that started with "al-" are typically from an Arabic origin like "alfombra" (EN: carpet). "Al-" means "the" in Arabic. Many Spanish place names are Arabic as well like "Alcalá" (de Henares), the birthplace of Cervantes, near Madrid in Spain means, "the citadel" in Arabic (from the Wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcalá). "Zaragoza" in Spain is Arabized Latin for "Caesar-augusta" [BOBS 168].

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