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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic أَرْغِيس (ʔarḡīs, “barberry”), a borrowing from Berber where arḡīs has been the bark of the root of barberry – azarġīnt the plant –, still present in the same form in Moroccan Arabic and Berber dialects.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /alaɾˈɡeθ/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alaɾˈɡes/
- Rhymes: -eθ
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: a‧lar‧guez
Noun
alarguez m (plural alargueces) (archaic)
- barberry (Berberis vulgaris)
- Synonyms: agracero, agracejo
- rosewood, princewood (the slightly aromatic wood of Cordia gerascanthus)
- Synonyms: palo de rosas, palo de águila
Further reading
- “alarguez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- Corriente, F. (1997) A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 11
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alarguez”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 53
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 30
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 57
- Meouak, Mohamed (2015) La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: Textes, contextes, analyses (in French), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 91