jaez
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَهَاز (jahāz).
Pronunciation
Noun
jaez m (plural jaezes)
- harness
- (figuratively) sort; ilk
- 1868, Bruno Seabra, chapter 10, in Memórias de um pobre diabo, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Luso-Brasileira, page 74:
- Confessemos, o capitalista não andava corrente com o Codigo do Bom-Tom. Declarar á noiva que um aphorismo de tal jaez lhe ficava no canhenho, foi falta de tino imperdoavel.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic جَهَاز (jahāz, “equipment”).
Pronunciation
Noun
jaez m (plural jaeces)
- harness
- 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, “Capítulo XLV”, in El ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha:
- Basta: si es que esta bacía es yelmo, también debe de ser esta albarda jaez de caballo, como este señor ha dicho.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figuratively) sort; ilk
Derived terms
Further reading
- “jaez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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