almadén
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See also: Almadén
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic اَلْمَعْدِن (al-maʕdin, “the mine”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]almadén m (plural almadenes)
- (obsolete) mine, miner
- c. 1453-1454, Pedro Tafur, Andanças e viajes de Pedro Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos[1], published 1874, page 20:
- Allí fallé aquel dia con él á Carlo Morosin, un mercader que estava en Sevilla é tuvo grant tiempo los almadenes arrendados, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “almadén”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- "almadén", Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española (TDHLE) [2]
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