When a Spanish speaker sighs *ojalá*, they're unknowingly uttering an 8th-century Arabic prayer. It's one of around 4,000 Arabic words hiding in plain sight in modern Spanish — and the story of how they got there spans seven centuries, a medieval superpower, and a piece of fruit that travelled from ancient India to a Seville market.
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