azumbre

English

Noun

azumbre (plural azumbres)

1. An ancient measure of volume of liquids used in Castile, equivalent to 2.016 litres.

Galician

Etymology

Variant of earlier açubre and açumbre, from Old Spanish, from Andalusian Arabic الثُّمُن (aṯ-ṯúmn), from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun) and ثُمْن (ṯumn, “one-eighth”). Doublet of celamín. Cognate with Spanish azumbre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈθumbɾɪ]

Noun

azumbre m (plural azumbres)

1. (historical) azumbre, a unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 2 L [1290] a liquid measure, an eighth of a [Term?] or about 2 L
   • 1457, M. González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 648:

     Iten mando para os flaires do mosteiro de San Francisco da dita ciudad, docentos azumbres de vino da terra

     Item, I bequeath to the friars of the monastery of Saint Francis of that city, two hundred azumbres of country wine

   • c. 1840, Ramón Varela Vahamonde, Conversa entre os arrieiros:

     A muller do Serafiño
     Por unha pinga rabéa,
     Quérea de cote a probiña,
     E se non bebe, toléa.
     Parece un longo varal,
     tratándose de viño,
     Gorxa tan ancha ela mostra
     Com’a canle dun bô muíño.
     Pro, se non vai por azumbres,
     Logo dí qu’é pouquiniño.

     Serafin's wife
     for a drop rages;
     she wants it all the time, poor thing,
     and if she doesn't drink she goes mad.
     She seems a long rod,
     but when it is about wine,
     she shows a gorge as wide
     as the flume of a good mill.
     But, if it doesn't come by gallons,
     soon she said that it is too little.

Coordinate terms

• cántara (8 azumbres)

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “açu_bre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “açumbre”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “azumbre”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “azumbre”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “azumbre”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic الثُّمُن (aṯ-ṯúmn), from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun), ثُمْن (ṯumn, “one eighth”). Doublet of tomín and celemín.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθumbɾe/ [aˈθũm.bɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈsumbɾe/ [aˈsũm.bɾe]
• Rhymes: -umbɾe
• Syllabification: a‧zum‧bre

Noun

azumbre m (plural azumbres)

1. an ancient measure of volume of liquids used in Castile, equivalent to 2.016 litres

Coordinate terms

• cuartillo (¹⁄₄ azumbre)

Descendants

• → Andalusian Arabic: çǔmri

Further reading

• “azumbre”, 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