Who conquered who? Turk or Arab

Is it Important? Coz u guys are all the same...

Oh please.... Just because he advertises that he is a Muslim?

What is a necessary signature and an unncessary signature? Everyone's signature is up to him as long as it does not intend in bothering others.

Now, going to the question,

  Your poll asked about who conquered who, but your post asks about influence. Conquering is not a sign of influencing. To answer the question per se, I have to ask the following question: Are the Abbassid an Arab empire, and are the Ottomans a Turkish empires? After answring that, we can answer the poll question about who conquered who.

   However, your post question about who has the most influence, i guess Arab had more influence on Turks indirectly (language influence through the Persian borrowed words & embarassing Islam which its Quran being written in Arabic brings language influences, not necessary cultural ones). That is similar to the question of influence between the Latin Romans and many unconquered regions that absorbed Latin influence through adopting Christianity, including language influence through the Vulgate Latin bible.

it really is hard to find turkish influence on the arabs even with the 1000 year rule of the seljuk and ottomans in the middle east. but i also dont think arabs had too much influence on the turks eathier.

i mean we still speak turkish dont we and even when we used the arabic alphabet, we introduced a few different letters to suit the turkish wordings.

the only influence the turks gained from the arabs was Islam. although the first muslim turk empire converted without arab influence and came from a dream that the sultan had, when he woke up he sed the shahadah. he then invited his people to accept as well in which they quickly accepted. thats what i herd anyway ill look into it a bit more.

Ottoman Turk, how about words such as Merhaba, D�nya, Kalp, portakal etc. At the moment iam trying to learn Arabic in my spare time and am amazed by the amount of words that the Turkish language has accumalated from the Arabs. Are there any Turkish words in Arabic or any other influence? Any Arabs out there?

All i know is that i have met Algerians that know Turkish as well as northern Iraqis.

Turks and Arabs didn't influence each others directly. Culturally, I cannot speak of, but linguistically, Turks were heavily influenced with Arabic but not from their contact with Arabs. It is with their contact with Persians, which is by itself contains a lot of Arabic vocabularies. Words that Osmanli mentioned and others show an Arabic origin with a Persian pronounciation even after removing 10,000 Arabic original words, you will still notic words such as Zaman, Muhasebe, haber, a�k, Helal sana, tarihi, millet, istiklal...etc

We have to realize that the weak influence of Turkish on Arabic is due only because most of the Ottoman sultans gave the regions under their empire an autonomous status and usually appointed local governers, thus less contact with the central government, its culture, and its language. Also, there was no Turkish immigration to the deep of Arab speaking terretories such as deeper Syria and Egypt or north Africa.

Most people who speaks Turkish are intellectuals and educated old individuals at the time when learning the Turkish language was an advantage in taking high commanding positions in the terretories of Ottoman control, or if they were turkmen immigrant as the turkmen of Iraq.

Osmanli, you can still find a weaker but considerablly clear Turkish influence on Arab language on street dialects, but not the classical arabic. Thus, when many educated people rose up and TV programming such as News..etc was in Classical Arabic, people started using the classical terms to look educated which are again purely Arabic.

You still hear words like Odah (Oda in Turkish)=room, Kushuk (TR=k��k)=a selling koisk, Dosh (TK=Du�)= Shower Bath,Hanim (TK=Han�m), Bey, Afendem...etc.  These are used in street, but when you want to speak in academic sense, TV interview, in a discussion, you want to look educated and so you will use Fus-ha, which is the Arabic Classical Language.