almafi
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Old Galician-Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “elephant-bone”), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) + فِيل (fīl, “elephant”).
Cognate with Old Spanish almalfil.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]almafi m
- ivory (material)
- 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 299 (facsimile):
- Un freire dos da eſtrela tragia.
a ſeu colo en que muito crija
hũa omagen deſta que nos guia
dalmafi que ſeu fill en braços tẽ
De muitas maneiras ſc̃a maria- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants
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- Old Galician-Portuguese terms borrowed from Arabic
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Galician-Portuguese/i
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- Old Galician-Portuguese lemmas
- Old Galician-Portuguese nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese masculine nouns
- Old Galician-Portuguese terms with quotations