cajel
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic قَمْحِيّ (qamḥiyy), nisba of قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”), also used as cajín for pomegranates, like in Andalusian رُمَّان قَمْحِيّ (rummān qamḥiyy).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cajel
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: kahel
References
[edit]- Corriente, Federico (2008) “cajel”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
- 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 268
Further reading
[edit]- “cajel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014