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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic رَغَائِف (raḡāʔif), plural of رَغِيفَة (raḡīfa, “loaf”), colloquial variant of رَغِيف (raḡīf, “loaf”). Cognate with Galician and Portuguese regueifa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reˈɡaifa/
- Rhymes: -aifa
- Syllabification: re‧gai‧fa
Noun
regaifa f (plural regaifas)
- a certain part of an oil mill, being a circular stone slab where olives are accumulated for following pressing
Further reading
- “regaifa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “La Policía recupera la piedra de un histórico molino de aceite de Calatayud”, in ABC Aragón (in Spanish), 2016 May 10