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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَعْدِن (maʕdin, “mine, lode”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /almaˈden/
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: al‧ma‧dén
Noun
almadén m (plural almadenes)
- (obsolete) mine, miner
c. 1453-1454, Pero Tafur, edited by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos [Avid Adventures and Travels of Pero Tafur to Various Parts of the World], Imprenta de Miguel Ginesta, published 1874, →OCLC, page 20:Allí fallé aquel dia con él á Carlo Morosin, un mercader que estava en Sevilla é tuvo grant tiempo los almadenes arrendados, […]- There I met Carlo Morosin with him that day, a merchant who was in Seville and had been renting the mines for a long time,
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