cajel
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic قَمْحِيّ (qamḥiyy), nisba of قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”), also used as cajín for pomegranates, like in Andalusian رُمَّان قَمْحِيّ (rummān qamḥiyy).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcajel
Descendants
edit- → Tagalog: kahel
References
edit- Corriente, Federico (2008) “cajel”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 268
Further reading
edit- “cajel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014