Andalusian Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish azumbre, from Andalusian Arabic الثُمْن (aṯ-ṯumn), from Arabic ثُمْن (ṯumn, one-eighth).

Noun

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çǔmri (plural çumǐri)

  1. azumbre (an obsolete unit of measure)
    • 1505, Pedro de Alcalá, Vocabulista arauigo en letra castellana:
      Açũbre. çǔmri. çumǐri.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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  • Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 261