acequia
English edit
Etymology edit
From Spanish acequia, from Arabic الساقیة (“water conduit”), ultimately from Classical Arabic سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”). Doublet of sakia.
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Noun edit
acequia (plural acequias)
- An irrigation ditch, chiefly with reference to Mexico or the southwestern US. [from 19th c.]
- 2006, Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder, Abacus, published 2014, page 3:
- Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.
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Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic السَّاقِيَة (as-sāqiya, “irrigation”), from سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”), through Andalusian Arabic. Compare Sicilian saja and Catalan séquia.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθekja/ [aˈθe.kja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈsekja/ [aˈse.kja]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -ekja
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧quia
Noun edit
acequia f (plural acequias)
- (agriculture) irrigation ditch
- 1875, Benito Pérez Galdós, El equipaje del rey José, chapter 16:
- Los caballos bebían en una gran acequia que de un punto a otro atravesaba el pueblo
- The horses drank from a large ditch that crossed the town from one point to another.
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Further reading edit
- “acequia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014