almadén

See also: Almadén

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin, “mine, lode”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /almaˈden/ [al.maˈð̞ẽn]
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: al‧ma‧dén

Noun

almadén m (plural almadenes)

1. (obsolete) mine, miner
   • c. 1453-1454, Pero Tafur, edited by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos, Imprenta de Miguel Ginesta, published 1874, →OCLC, page 20:

     Allí fallé aquel dia con él á Carlo Morosin, un mercader que estava en Sevilla é tuvo grant tiempo los almadenes arrendados, […]

     There I met Carlo Morosin with him that day, a merchant who was in Seville and had been renting the mines for a long time, […]

Synonyms

• mina
• minero

 

Further reading

• “almadén”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• “almadén”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española, Real Academia Española, 2021