A scorpion, particularly used in Spanish and Portuguese to refer to any scorpion species.
From Spanish and Portuguese alacran (also alacrán), derived from Arabic al-aqrab, where al- is the article and aqrab means scorpion. The word traveled into Iberian languages through centuries of Arab presence in medieval Spain.
The Arabic word for scorpion shows how the Islamic Golden Age's scientific knowledge spread through Spain and Portugal—early European naturalists actually learned scorpion classification from Arabic texts!
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