almocávar

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic المقبرة (al-maqbara).

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: al‧mo‧cá‧var

Noun

almocávar m (plural almocávares)

  1. (historical) a cemetery for Moors or Jews, during the 14th and 15th centuries
    • 1551, Cristóvão Rodrigues de Oliveira, Sumario ẽ que breuemente se contem alguas cousas assi ecclesiasticas como seculares que ha na cidade de Lisboa‎, Lisbon: Germão Galharde, published 1554, Ruas Traueſas E Becos deſta fregueſia, page 17, column 2:
      […] Rua do almocouar […]
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    • 1642, Aires Varella, Sucessos que ouve nas fronteiras d'Elvas, Olivença, Campo Mayor, & Ouguella ‎, Lisboa: Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa, page 34:
      No Almocouar com mais demonſtraçoẽs, & menos embaraços dizião auia agoa, tratou deſta, achou tanta q́ ſegurou eſta cidade deſte aperto, que era o mayor, q padecia.
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    • 1900 [1503], Livro de Extremadura‎, volume 13, page 97, quoted in O Archeologo Português, page 277:
      […] chão que esta no araballde da mouraria que parte de huua parte com casas que foram de Antam Gonçalluez e agora he de seu filho e com outro chaão que he aforado a Joham Fernandez que he do dito senhor e com rrua que vay da mouraria pera o almocouar e da outra parte com outra rua que vay da porta da dita mouraria e vay pêra ho almocouar […]
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    • 2023, “Coimbra judaica”, in Centro de Portugal‎, Viseu:
      No prolongamento da Judiaria para nordeste, até à Almoinha Régia, (almonia regis), que depois foi a Quinta de Santa Cruz e, actualmente, é Avenida Sá da Bandeira, encontravam-se o almocávar e a Fonte dos Judeus.
      On the extension of the Jewish quarter, towards the northeast, till the Almoinha Régia , (almonia regis), that later became the Quinta de Santa Cruz and is now the Avenida Sá da Bandeira, was then situated the almocávar (cemetery) and the Fonte dos Judeus (Jewish Fountain).

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