alarguez
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic أَرْغِيس (ʔarḡīs, “barberry”), a borrowing from Berber where arḡīs has been the bark of the root of barberry – azarġīnt the plant –, still present in the same form in Moroccan Arabic and Berber dialects.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /alaɾˈɡeθ/ [a.laɾˈɣ̞eθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /alaɾˈɡes/ [a.laɾˈɣ̞es]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -eθ
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: a‧lar‧guez
Noun edit
alarguez m (plural alargueces) (archaic)
- barberry (Berberis vulgaris)
- rosewood, princewood (the slightly aromatic wood of Cordia gerascanthus)
- Synonyms: palo de rosas, palo de águila
Further reading edit
- “alarguez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- 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 11
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alarguez”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 53
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 30
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe[2] (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 57
- Meouak, Mohamed (2015) La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: Textes, contextes, analyses (in French), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 91