Avelar - Wikipedia Avelar This article may be expanded with text translated from the corresponding article in Portuguese. ( February 2011 ) Click for important translation instructions. View a machine - translated version of the Portuguese article. Google 's machine translation is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy - pasting machine - translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low - quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign - language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary ( using German ) : Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ( ( : de : Exact name of German article ) ) ; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template ( ( Translated pt Avelar ) ) to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia : Translation. Avelar is a civil parish of the municipality of Ansião, Portugal. It is also a Sephardic Jewish name deriving from an old form of Arabic for the word `` running ''. The name was later appended to the town as a result of the Jewish expulsions from Spain ( 1391, 1492 ) and the subsequent resettlement of Jews in Portugal. Coordinates : 39 ° 55 ′ 26 '' N 8 ° 21 ′ 29 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 39.924 ° N 8.358 ° W ﻿ / 39.924 ; - 8.358 References Jump up ^ Gitlitz, David. Secrecy and Deceit : The Religion of the Crypto - Jews. Jump up ^ Bonnin, Pere. Sangre Judia ( Jewish Blood ). This Leiria location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avelar&oldid=825673491 '' Categories : Parishes of Ansião Leiria geography stubs Hidden categories : Articles to be expanded from February 2011 All articles to be expanded Articles needing translation from Portuguese Wikipedia All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from February 2018 All articles lacking reliable references Articles lacking reliable references from February 2018 Coordinates on Wikidata All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Bân - lâm - gú Cebuano Deutsch Español Français Қазақша Bahasa Melayu Português Русский Українська 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 14 February 2018, at 18 : 52. About Wikipedia

Question: where does the last name avelar come from
Answer: Sephardic Jewish name deriving from an old form of Arabic for the word "running"