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Spanish
Etymology
Unknown, speculated Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim) blended with Romance ending. The Canarian forms are contaminated with nariz and buche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aliˈmot͡ʃe/
- Rhymes: -otʃe
- Syllabification: a‧li‧mo‧che
Noun
alimoche m (plural alimoches)
- Egyptian vulture
- Synonym: guirre
Further reading
- “alimoche”, 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, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “al/ribuche; alimoche; almiroche”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 134, 136, 158