The Portuguese language has influences from the Arab world
The book by the Lebanese Assaad Zaidan identified one thousand Arabic words in the Portuguese language. The text shows that Arab influence in Brazil goes well beyond cooking. Portuguese terms for tariff (tarifa), peddler (mascate), lettuce (alface) and lackey (lacaio) come from the Arabic. In literature, as well as the words, it is possible to see traces of the culture from that region in the work of famous Brazilian writer Guimarães Rosa.
