regaifa
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic رَغَائِف (raḡāʔif), plural of رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”). Cognate with Galician and Portuguese regueifa.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editregaifa f (plural regaifas)
- a certain part of an oil mill, being a circular stone slab where olives are accumulated for following pressing
Further reading
edit- “regaifa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “La Policía recupera la piedra de un histórico molino de aceite de Calatayud”, in ABC Aragón[1] (in Spanish), 2016 May 10