alcorque

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Spanish

Etymology

Variant of what is found in Portuguese, beside alcorque and alcorca, more originally as alcarque and alfarque, borrowed from well-known Arabic الْخَرْق (al-ḵarq, breakthrough) as employed in the sense of a rift for water.[1][2] Northwestern Arabic قُرْق (qurq, shoe, sandal)[3][4][5] is a reborrowing from Romance.[6]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈkoɾke/
  • Rhymes: -oɾke
  • Syllabification: al‧cor‧que

Noun

alcorque m (plural alcorques)

  1. tree grating (metal covering around the base of a tree, usually on a sidewalk)
  2. tree well (ridge of soil around a tree to conserve water)

Further reading

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcorque”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
  2. ^ 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 80
  3. ^ Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 131
  4. ^ 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, pages 93–94
  5. ^ Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 362–363
  6. ^ Ibn Ḵātima (a. 1369) “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XIIe siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال ”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris, volume 12, number 1, published 1931, page 26