aldea

Borrowed from Spanish aldea and/or Portuguese aldeia.

aldea (plural aldeas) (India, historical)

1. a village
2. a villa

• Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases

• aldega
• aldeya

Borrowed from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Spanish aldea, Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea/,

aldea f (plural aldees)

1. village

• IPA^(key): /aldea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: al‧de‧a

aldea

1. absolutive singular of alde

Borrowed from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Spanish aldea, Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

aldea f (plural aldees)

1. village, mostly used in medieval chronicles when referring to locations outside Catalonia or of Moorish population

• “aldea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “aldea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• aldeia

Attested locally since the 13th century, but uncommon before the 14th. From Old Galician-Portuguese aldea, aldeia, from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Portuguese aldeia and Spanish aldea.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea/
• Rhymes: -ea
• Hyphenation: al‧de‧a

aldea f (plural aldeas)

1. village, hamlet

   Synonyms: barrio, lugar, poubea

• Aldea
• Aldea Grande
• Aldea Nova
• Aldea Vella
• Aldeíña
• Cabo da Aldea
• Outraldea

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aldea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aldea”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “aldea”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “aldea”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “aldea”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /alde.a/

aldea f (plural aldeas)

1. Alternative form of aldeia

From Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”) via Andalusian Arabic. Compare Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea/

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: al‧de‧a

aldea f (plural aldeas)

1. village

   Synonym: villa

• “aldea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28