álabe

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin alapa (“slap”), also meaning a vane in French aube and Romanian aripă.

Noun

álabe m (plural álabes)

1. olive branch bent down and reaching the ground
2. any of the force-transmitting elements of a propelling wheel in a water-mill, flier, vane

   Holonyms: rodete, rodezno

3. turbine blade
4. tappet on a fulling wheel
5. a barrier such as a mat on the side of a carriage so he who drives it does not fall out
6. sides of a target or shield

   Synonym: alabez

Related terms

• alabear (“to bend to make crooked”)
• alabeo (“bent of a piece of wood”)

Descendants

• → Basque: alabezki

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1907) Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, volume 31, pages 582–586