# What words has English borrowed from other languages since 2000?

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While there are surely neologisms from Orwell and Tolkien, I doubt that any of them would have entered the language since 2000. For that, you’d need a work written or at least popularized since 2000, or a very short time before. Most of the words from Rowling (“muggle” is probably the biggest) came from the first book, first published in 1997, but I don’t know how long it took for it to catch on widely.

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> [@Shalmanese](#):
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> English has always had a long tradition of borrowing words from other languages

Borrowing? More like English pursues other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

[sub]stolen from James Nicoll[/sub]

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> The first Chipotle Mexican Grill was established in Denver in 1993. Its major expansion took place after 1998. I would think that many people first encountered the word in the name of the restaurant.

I only found out a few weeks ago that _chipotle_ wasn’t just a made-up Spanish-sounding name for a burrito restaurant chain. Found out here at the SDMB, as a matter of fact. (Ignorance fought!)

> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> I thought of that earlier, but it’s definitely pre-2000. I was trying to think of some Arabic words that would have slipped into English after 9/11/01 and the only one I could come up with was “ **madrasa** ”, but I’m not sure that one qualifies either. **Sharia** [law]?

How about _hijab_?

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> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#):
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> How about _hijab_?

The Arabic word means “veiling” and it can refer either to the practice of wearing garments which veil the head, or to the garment itself.

The OED has cites in English for the first sense from 1885; for the second sense from 1980.

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