aljamiado

English

Alternative forms

• Aljamiado
• Aljamia, aljamia

Etymology

From Spanish aljamiado (composed of aljamía +‎ -ado), from Arabic عَجَمِيَّة (ʕajamiyya) or اَلْعَجَمِيَّة (al-ʕajamiyya), from عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs, esp. Persians”) + ـِي (-ī, “relative adjective (nisba) suffix”) + ـَة (-a, “feminine marker, also used to mark language names or to generally form nouns from the adjectives”).

Noun

aljamiado (uncountable)

1. Text of non-Semitic language, especially European languages, written in Arabic letters.

Translations

non-Semitic language written in Arabic letters

• Portuguese: aljamia f, aljamiado m
• Spanish: aljamía (es) f, aljamiado (es) m

See also

• Arebica

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ʒa.miˈa.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒa.mɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /aw.ʒaˈmja.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒaˈmja.du]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ʒa.miˈa.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒa.mɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /aw.ʒaˈmja.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒaˈmja.du]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aw.ʒa.miˈa.do/ [aʊ̯.ʒa.mɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /aw.ʒaˈmja.do/ [aʊ̯.ʒaˈmja.do]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /al.ʒɐˈmja.du/ [aɫ.ʒɐˈmja.ðu]

Noun

aljamiado m (plural aljamiados)

1. (palaeography) aljamiado (Iberian Romance languages written in Arabic)

   Synonym: aljamia

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Spanish, from Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʎamiado/
• Hyphenation: a‧lja‧mi‧a‧do

Proper noun

aljamiado m (Cyrillic spelling аљамиадо)

1. aljamiado

   Synonym: alhamiado

References

• “aljamiado”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Spanish

Etymology

From aljamía +‎ -ado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alxaˈmjado/ [al.xaˈmja.ð̞o]

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• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: al‧ja‧mia‧do

Adjective

aljamiado (feminine aljamiada, masculine plural aljamiados, feminine plural aljamiadas)

1. (of Romance-language text) written in Arabic letters

Descendants

• → English: aljamiado

Further reading

• “aljamiado”, 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