alcouve
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Galician[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps ultimately from Arabic حوض (ḥawḍ, “basin”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
alcouve m (plural alcouves)
- seedbed; nursery
- Synonyms: pebidal, sementeiro
- 1900, Leopoldo Basa Villadefrancos, Fixo ben?:
- Sabeliña chamábase tamén a filla de Antón, e polo garrida era un milleiro de herbas cabreiras, un alcoube de meigallos.
- Sabeliña was also the name of Anton's daughter, so lush that she was a thousand Lunaria annua, a seedbed of charms.
References[edit]
- “alcouve” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “alcouve” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “alcouve” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcouve”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 90