Historians use the term in a nonderogatory way to refer to people of Muslim background who converted to Catholicism and stayed in the Iberian Peninsula after the fall of the last Muslim kingdom there in 1492.
Izazi-mlando zisebenzisa leli gama ngendlela engeyona eyokweyisa lapho zibhekisela kubantu ababevela enkolweni yobuSulumane abaguqukela enkolweni yobuKatolika futhi ababehlala eNhlonhlweni yase-Iberia ngemva kokuwa kombuso wokugcina wamaSulumane kuleyo ndawo ngo-1492.