It was because I was looking at Spanish words that came from Arabic...never expected to find one that came from arabic that came from Cantonese...
Ni Hao, Lei (thunder), Xian, Wu (five), Di (emperor), Ying, Yang, Yue, Tian lan se (azure), Hong (red), Huang (yellow), Hei (black), and Bai (white) are the limits of my Chinese. Are any of those Cantonese?