Galician edit

Etymology edit

From a metathesis of Arabic اَلسُّوق (as-sūq, the market, the souq).[1] Doublet of azougue.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

alcouce m (plural alcouces)

  1. small sheltered square in a hamlet or village
  2. brothel

References edit

  • alcouce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcouce”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN