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Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish açeifa, from Arabic صَائِفَة (ṣāʔifa, “an expedition in the summer”), derivative of صَيْف (ṣayf, “summer”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθeifa/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /aˈseifa/
- Rhymes: -eifa
- Syllabification: a‧cei‧fa
Noun
aceifa f (plural aceifas)
- (historical) summertime ghazwa (Moorish raids into Christian kingdoms of Northern Spain)
Further reading
- “aceifa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- 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 15