The influence of a Semitic language, Arabic, on Portuguese vocabulary is the subject of this thesis. To contextualise this investigation, the first part of this thesis provides an introduction to Arabic, its history, and its linguistic particularities, as well as an overview of the history of Arabic influences upon Portuguese. Particular attention is given to the phonetic transformations of Arabic loan words resulting from the contact and exchange between speakers of these languages. Portuguese was influenced by Arabic in discrete phases, which are described in detail: the period of Muslim rule in Portugal in the Middle Ages and the period of migration of African Muslim slaves and the Syro-Lebanese population to Brazil. Having outlined Arabic words brought into Portuguese usage, the second part of this thesis then turns to the analysis of this corpus of loan words. Thanks to various Portuguese corpora, the frequency of Arabic loan words is analysed. This thesis is completed with an appendix including supplementary information about Arabic and cities of the former Gharb Al-Andalus. Key words: Arabic, Portuguese, lexicology, Arabic loan words, Syro-Lebanese migration, semantic fields

Orientador: Omar Ribeiro Thomaz / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto d Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T05:13:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janequine_OliviaGoncalves_M.pdf: 1792032 bytes, checksum: a0352588a2e20b318ac19dafae0d3973 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Na passagem do século XIX para o XX, no contexto de sua grande migração, alguns milhares de sírio-libaneses foram para a África Ocidental e ali se estabeleceram. Em toda a região, tornaram-se intermediários no circuito comercial, então em plena ascenção, que fazia chegar as matérias-primas da região à indústria européia e os bens de consumo produzidos na Europa àquele que era um novo mercado. Concomitantemente à expansão do comércio externo na região, deu-se a intensificação da presença militar e administrativa dos Estados imperiais europeus ali e no resto do continente africano. Com o contexto global e regional sempre em perspectiva, esta dissertação apresenta uma investigação sobre o processo de estabelecimento de migrantes sírio-libaneses na Guiné Portuguesa (atual Guiné-Bissau), concentrando-se nos anos correspondentes ao primeiro período republicano em Portugal, entre 1910 e 1926. O tema é abordado através da análise de documentos produzidos no contexto da administração colonial portuguesa no território, material que nos permitiu construir uma interpretação sobre este processo em que a ambigüidade da condição de estrangeiro é o elemento central. / Abstract: Between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries, in the context of their great migration, a few thousand Syrian-Lebanese travelled to and settled in West Africa. All over the region they became middlemen in a then growing trade circuit that carried local produce to the European industry and European manufactures to that new market. Concomitant to the expansion of external trade in the region was the intensification of imperial European states' military and administrative presence there and in the rest of the African continent. With the global and regional contexts constantly in the horizon, this dissertation presents a survey of the settlement process of Syrian-Lebanese migrants in Portuguese Guinea (present Guinea- Bissau), focusing the years of the first Portuguese republican period, between 1910 and 1926. The theme is approached through the analysis of written documents produced in the context of the Portuguese colonial administration in the territory. The material allows of an interpretation of the process in which the ambiguity of the condition of stranger plays a central role. / Mestrado / Cultura e Poder / Mestre em Antropologia Social