Mudejar Definition
(uncountable) A style of Iberian architecture and decoration of the 12th to 16th centuries.
Of or pertaining to the Moors of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity.
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Origin of Mudejar
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Spanish from Arabic mudajjan permitted to remain, Mudéjar passive participle of dajjana to allow to remain from dajana to remain, stay dgn in Semitic roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Spanish mudéjar, from Arabic مدجن (mudájjan, “domesticated”), from the verb دجّن (dájjana, “to tame”), from دجن (dájana, “to become accustomed”).
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