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Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps Latin ālipēs (“winged”) or alapa (“blow, smack”).[1][2] Compare Romanian aripă (“vane”).
Pronunciation
Noun
álabe m (plural álabes)
- olive branch bent down and reaching the ground
- any of the force-transmitting elements of a propelling wheel in a water-mill, flier, vane
- Holonyms: rodete, rodezno
- turbine blade
- tappet on a fulling wheel
- a barrier such as a mat on the side of a carriage so he who drives it does not fall out
- sides of a target or shield
- Synonym: alabez
- alabear (“to bend to make crooked”)
- alabeo (“bent of a piece of wood”)
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