Alenquer

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Alanquer

Etymology

Uncertain:

• Tartessian Alan-kerk-kana;
• Germanic Alenen-kerk, Alano-kerk or Alan-kerk, meaning church, temple, castle or fortress of the Alans.
• Suevic [Term?] Alankana;
• Arabic العَيْنُ الكِير (al-ʕaynu l-kīr, “blessed spring”);
• Arabic الحَاكِم (al-ḥākim, “the governor”).
• from Arabic ال (al-) + Latin iuncarium (“growth of rushes”), via Mozarabic [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aleŋkɛɾ/

Proper noun

Alenquer

1. A village in Portugal
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 271 (facsimile):

     Deſto direi un miragre que fez aqueſta ſennor. grande mui marauilloſo eno Rio Dazamor. que Morabe é chamado por lo Alcaide maẏor. dũa naue que ẏ era de Rei ſennor DAlenquer.

     Of this I will tell a miracle that the lady worked, great and wonderful, in the Azamor river, that is called Morabe by the major alcaide, of a ship which belonged to the King lord of Alenquer.

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Alenquer.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.lẽˈkɛ(ʁ)/ [a.lẽˈkɛ(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.lẽˈkɛ(ʁ)/ [a.lẽˈkɛ(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /a.lẽˈkɛ(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.lẽˈkɛ(ʁ)/ [a.lẽˈkɛ(χ)]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.lẽˈkɛ(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lẽˈkɛɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lẽˈkɛɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.lẽˈkɛ.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: A‧len‧quer

• Audio (Portugal):

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Proper noun

Alenquer m

1. A village and municipality of Lisbon district, Portugal

Related terms

• alenquerense