Which European language do you think has more Arab/Semitic influence?

[Tigranes]

Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family.

[Phenix]

French, Spanish, and Portuguese, at the same amount.
Maltese is an Arabic language.

[Ruggery]

Persian belongs to the Indo-European language family.

But culturally it is not from Europe.

[Ruggery]

French, Spanish, and Portuguese, at the same amount.

All the same?

[Phenix]

All the same?

From the three, I only speak French, but the Arabic loanwords must be of the same amount as the other two in my humble experience with their nationals and cultures.

[Nassbean]

From the three, I only speak French, but the Arabic loanwords must be of the same amount as the other two in my humble experience with their nationals and cultures.

no there are way more arabic words in spanish than in french : only 400 french words are from the arabic language and approximately 4000 in spanish

[Phenix]

no there are way more arabic words in spanish than in french : only 400 french words are from the arabic language and approximately 4000 in spanish

Are you sure? I can find more than 400 just by scratching my head a little bit.
Maybe you are right about Spanish relatedness, if we take in consideration that Spaniards integrate Arabic words more well than French did.

[coolfrenchguy]

Maltese language, it's not in the poll though.

https://www.aus.edu/media/events/mal...-descendant-of

yes you make a huge point here,maltese is almost arabic,but spanish is well influenced by arabic also,words in french like tomate,guitare,alcool,comes to my mind,even we are very less influenced than the spaniards

[coolfrenchguy]

French, Spanish, and Portuguese, at the same amount.
Maltese is an Arabic language.

but in portuguese is quite lesser i think ,portuguese at writing,because by hear it's awfull for me,at writing seems more nearer of italian more romanian than spanish

[Ruggery]

Are you sure? I can find more than 400 just by scratching my head a little bit.
Maybe you are right about Spanish relatedness, if we take in consideration that Spaniards integrate Arabic words more well than French did.

Examples?