alcouce

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Galician

Etymology

From a metathesis of Arabic اَلسُّوق (as-sūq, “the market, the souq”).^[1] Doublet of azougue.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /alˈkowθe̝/

Noun

alcouce m (plural alcouces)

small sheltered square in a hamlet or village
brothel

References

Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “alcouce”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcouce”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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