alfalfez
Old Spanish
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Borrowed from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa).
Noun
[edit]alfalfez m (plural alfalfezes)
- alfalfa
- c. 1380–1385, Ferrer Sayol, transl., Libro de Palladio, translation of Opus agriculturae by Palladius, page 130r:
- E sepas que el alfalfez estercuela e engrasa el campo o la tierra.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
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[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alfalˈfeθ/ [al.falˈfeθ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alfalˈfes/ [al.falˈfes]
- Rhymes: -eθ
- Rhymes: -es
- Syllabification: al‧fal‧fez
Noun
[edit]alfalfez m (plural alfalfeces)
Further reading
[edit]- “alfalfez”, 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
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