“Mohalaca” in Jorge Luis Borges’s “La busca de Averroes” (1947)

In “La busca de Averroes”, a 1947 story by Jorge Luis Borges, I came across “mohalaca”, which isn’t in the Word Reference bilingual dictionary. So I checked Wikcionario, which had a definition – and its example was the passage from Borges’s story! “Mohalaca” is a Spanish spelling of the Arabic “Mu'allaqat”, “the hanging poems”, which refers to a set of pre-Islamic poems in Arabic that were hung up in the Kaaba in Mecca. Borges, the Argentine writer who was not yet completely blind in 1947, refers to the poem by Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma and its reference to a “blind camel”: “I see death is like the blundering of a blind camel”. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 3 February 2025)