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Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, identical to Catalan llonja, alonja (“vegetal matter to make birdlime when mixed with resinous substrate”). Hardly related to ajonjolí since this Arabism lacks in Catalan and the composite plant, to which the meaning of birdlime is secondary, has no commonality with sesame. Latin axungia (“lard”) has other descendants.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈxonxe/
- Rhymes: -onxe
- Syllabification: a‧jon‧je
Noun
ajonje m (plural ajonjes)
- birdlime
- a plant, Andryala ragusina
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ajonje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “ajonjolí”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 97