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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَمْحِيّ (qamḥiyy), nisba of قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”), also used as cajín for pomegranates, like in Andalusian رُمَّان قَمْحِيّ (rummān qamḥiyy).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈxel/
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: ca‧jel
Adjective
cajel
- used after naranja or naranjo to denote a variety of oranges
Descendants
References
- Corriente, Federico (2008) “cajel”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 268
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