almafi

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Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

almafil, almofi, ammafide, marfi, marfil, marfim, marfym, olmafi

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “elephant-bone”), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) + فِيل (fīl, “elephant”).

Cognate with Old Spanish almalfil.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /al.maˈfi/
Rhymes: -i
Hyphenation: al‧ma‧fi

Noun

almafi m (uncountable)

ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 299 (facsimile):
  Un freire dos da eſtrela tragia.
  a ſeu colo en que muito crija
  hũa omagen deſta que nos guia
  dalmafi que ſeu fill en braços tẽ
  De muitas maneiras ſc̃a maria
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

Galician: marfil, almafí
Portuguese: marfim

References

Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “marfil”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “almafi”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

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