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Old Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic اَلْجُبّ (al-jubb), from Arabic جُبّ (jubb, “cistern, well, pit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
algibe m (plural algibes)
- cistern (underground reservoir)
c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 61v:Et de como la fallan es deſta guiſa. que cabo daquella uilla a un campo. ⁊ ay muchos algibes en que ſe allega el agua dela lluuia ⁊ en cabo daquel campo a un monte muy alto de q́ deſcende agua de q́ ſe ynchen aquellos algibes. ⁊ quando ſe ſecan en tiempo del uerano, fallan y eſtas piedras.- And the manner in which this is found is this. In the outskirts of the city there is a field with cisterns that rainwater runs into, and near the edge of the field there is a high mountain from which that water that fills the cisterns descends. And when they dry up in the summertime, the stones may be found inside.
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