aceifa
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish açeifa, from Arabic صَائِفَة (ṣāʔifa, “an expedition in the summer”), derivative of صَيْف (ṣayf, “summer”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθeifa/ [aˈθei̯.fa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈseifa/ [aˈsei̯.fa]
- Rhymes: -eifa
- Syllabification: a‧cei‧fa
Noun
[edit]aceifa f (plural aceifas)
- (historical) summertime ghazwa (Moorish raids into Christian kingdoms of Northern Spain)
Further reading
[edit]- “aceifa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- 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 15
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