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[[Image:Eat the Guiri.JPG|thumb|Graffito in Palma, Mallorca. "Eat the Guiri"]]
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'''Guiri''' ({{IPA-es|ˈɡiɾi|pron}}) is a colloquial [[Spanish language|Spanish]] [[Pejorative|slur]] used in [[Spain]] applied to foreign tourists, particularly from [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], but can be applied to other Northern European countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn-94-58.htm|title = Moros, sudacas y guiris. Una forma de contemplar la diversidad humana en Barcelona}}</ref><ref>http://www.cafebabel.es/cultura/articulo/quienes-son-los-guiris.html</ref>
'''Guiri''' ({{IPA-es|ˈɡiɾi|pron}}) is a colloquial [[Spanish language|Spanish]] Word used in [[Spain]] applied to foreign tourists, particularly from [[United Kingdom|Great Britain]], but can be applied to other Northern European countries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ub.edu/geocrit/sn-94-58.htm|title = Moros, sudacas y guiris. Una forma de contemplar la diversidad humana en Barcelona}}</ref><ref>http://www.cafebabel.es/cultura/articulo/quienes-son-los-guiris.html</ref>


== Sources ==
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:29, 28 October 2021

Graffito in Palma, Mallorca. "Eat the Guiri"

Guiri (Template:IPA-es) is a colloquial Spanish Word used in Spain applied to foreign tourists, particularly from Great Britain, but can be applied to other Northern European countries.[1][2]

Sources

According to the Real Academia Dictionary, this word can be traced back to 19th century Carlist Wars in the form "guiristino", the pronunciation of Basque-speaking Carlist forces of the name of their enemies, the Cristinos (after regent Queen María Cristina).[3] It entered the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española in 1925. When a "guiri" would be the term used by the opposing political parties of the time, later to be exclusively used for the Guardia Civil and Policía Armada (Armed Police) under the Francoist régime.[4]

There is another theory by Juan Goytisolo that guiri is a neologism from Caló language which derives from Moroccan and Algerian Arabic gaouri (a word with a similar meaning applying to Europeans), which in turn stems from Ottoman Turkish gâvur.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Moros, sudacas y guiris. Una forma de contemplar la diversidad humana en Barcelona".
  2. ^ http://www.cafebabel.es/cultura/articulo/quienes-son-los-guiris.html
  3. ^ guiri at the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
  4. ^ The Spanish Republic and the civil war 1931-39, by Gabriel Jackson, New Jersey, 1967
  5. ^ Pesquisas en la obra tardía de Juan Goytisolo, page 66, Volumen 33 de Foro hispánico, ISSN 0925-8620, Brigitte Adriaensen, Marco Kunz, Rodopi, 2009, ISBN 9042025476, ISBN 9789042025479. Quotes Estambul otomano, page 62, Juan Goytisolo, 1989, Barcelona, Planeta.