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caravasar = caravanserai, caravansary, کاروانسرای kārvānsarāy is a Persian compound word combining kārvān "caravan" with sarāy "palace", "building with enclosed courts", from کاروان kārvān caravan + سرا sarā palace, large house, inn; an inn in eastern countries where caravans rest at night that is commonly a large ...
The "siesta" can refer to the nap itself, or more generally to a period of the day, generally between 2 and 5 p.m. This period is used for sleep, as well as leisure, midday meals, or other activities. Siestas are historically common throughout the Mediterranean and Southern Europe, the Middle East, mainland China, and the Indian subcontinent.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
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Peruvian football club Universitario's barra brava invented the Vamos chant. Vamos ('Let's go!'), also known as Esta Tarde ('This Afternoon') or Esta Noche ('Tonight'), [1] is a Spanish-language football chant from Peru attributed to the Trinchera Norte (Northern Trench), the barra brava of Lima sports club Universitario de Deportes.
from vamos, meaning "let's go" vanilla from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of Latin vaina, from vagina meaning "pod" [26] vaquero from the Spanish word vaquero vertigo from the Spanish word vértigo vicugna via Spanish, from Quechua wik'uña vigilante from Spanish vigilante, meaning "watchman." < latin vigiliā "sleepless night, vigil".
The RAE is Spain's official institution for documenting, planning, and standardising the Spanish language. A word form is any of the grammatical variations of a word. The second table is a list of 100 most common lemmas found in a text corpus compiled by Mark Davies and other language researchers at Brigham Young University in the United States.
Blue hour at the Old Cathedral of the Holy Name of Jesus, Bragança in Portugal. The blue hour (from French l'heure bleue; [1] [a] pronounced [lœʁ blø]) is the period of twilight (in the morning or evening, around the nautical stage) when the Sun is at a significant depth below the horizon.