alfanje
Portuguese
Noun
alfanje m (plural alfanjes)
- scimitar (Middle-Eastern sword with a curved blade)
Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic الخنجر (al-xanjar, “dagger”), from Classical Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar, “dagger”), from Persian خونگر (xungar).
Pronunciation
Noun
alfanje m (plural alfanjes)
- scimitar, cutlass (sword of Persian origin with a curved blade)
- swordfish (large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius)
- Synonym: pez espada
Further reading
- “alfanje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Swords
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Persian
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Fish
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