çǔmri

Andalusian Arabic

Etymology

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

Noun

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

• 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