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Bulgar
Etymology
Cognate with Turkish alp.
Noun
اَلِبْ (alıp)
- warrior
Descendants
References
- Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 182
Mozarabic
Etymology
From Latin albus.
Adjective
الب (albə or albu)
- white
c. 1100,
Kharja A14 :
- الْقل الب
- əl-quwallu albu
- The white neck.
c. 1100,
al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī,
Kharja A22 :
- الب ديه اشت ديه / دي ذا العنصر حقا
- albə diyya əštə diyya / diyya ḏā l-ʿanṣara ḥaqqa
- What a white day is today, Saint John's day!
- (literally, “White day this day, the day of Ansara!”)
Notes
- For Kharjas 14 and 22, Corriente reads ⟨'lb⟩ and ⟨'lfa⟩ respectively, which he takes to represent Mozarabic álbo (masculine) and álba (feminine).
References
- ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 113-114
- ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 162-164
- ^ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, pages 33, 35