ارصبشب

Andalusian Arabic

Alternative forms

• ارصوبشبوا
• arçobispo

Etymology

Borrowed from a Romance language such as Old Spanish arçobispo, from Latin archiepiscopus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχιεπίσκοπος (arkhiepískopos).

Noun

ارصبشب (arṣubišbu)

1. archbishop
   • 1505, Pedro de Alcalá, Vocabulista arauigo en letra castellana:

     Arçobiſpo. Arçobiſpo. arçobiſpos.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• 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
• Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 20