atalaia

Galician

Etymology

From Arabic طَلِيعَة (ṭalīʕa, “a scout; and a party of scouts”), from the verb طَالَعَ (ṭālaʕa, “to inspect”), from the root ط ل ع (ṭ-l-ʕ), the same as طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa, “to watch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ataˈlaja̝/

Noun

atalaia f (plural atalaias)

1. watchtower

Derived terms

• Atalaia

References

• “atalaya” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “atalaia” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “atalaia” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• Corriente, Federico (2008) “atalaia”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الطَلِيعَة (aṭ-ṭalīʕa, “a scout; and a party of scouts”) (plural الطَلَائِع (aṭ-ṭalāʔiʕ)), from the verb طَالَعَ (ṭālaʕa, “to inspect”), from the root ط ل ع (ṭ-l-ʕ), the same as طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa, “to watch”).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: Atalaia
• Hyphenation: a‧ta‧lai‧a

Noun

atalaia f (plural atalaias)

1. watchtower
2. (Brazil) the highest peak in a mountain chain

Verb

atalaia

1. inflection of atalaiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “atalaya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• “طَلِيعَةٌ in Edward William Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, Williams & Norgate, London: 1863.