What others said about Arabic Read in the original
“The Arabic element was, after the Latin, the most important in the Spanish vocabulary until the sixteenth century. Counting the vocabulary proper together with place-names, it does not seem exaggerated to reckon a total of more than four thousand forms.”
Rafael Lapesa
1908–2001
Spanish philologist and historian of the Spanish language, member of the Real Academia Española.
Original text — Spanish
El elemento árabe fue, después del latino, el más importante del vocabulario español hasta el siglo XVI. Sumando el léxico propiamente dicho y los topónimos, no parece exagerado calcular un total superior a cuatro mil formas.
In Arabic
كَانَ العُنْصُرُ العَرَبِيُّ، بَعْدَ اللَّاتِينِيِّ، أَهَمَّ عَنَاصِرِ المُعْجَمِ الإِسْبَانِيِّ إِلَى القَرْنِ السَّادِسَ عَشَرَ. وَإِذَا ضُمَّتِ المُفْرَدَاتُ بِمَعْنَاهَا الدَّقِيقِ إِلَى أَسْمَاءِ الأَمَاكِنِ، فَلَيْسَ مِنَ المُبَالَغَةِ أَنْ يُقَدَّرَ مَجْمُوعُ ذَلِكَ بِأَكْثَرَ مِنْ أَرْبَعَةِ آلافِ صِيغَة.
Source
Historia de la lengua española, § 33, Madrid: Gredos, 1981, p. 133
The English translation is Voice of Arabic's, made from the original.
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