aljama
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic جَمْع (jamʕ, “to gather”).
Noun[edit]
aljama (plural aljamas)
- (historical) A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
- 1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain, volume 1, New York: MacMillan, page 86:
- [T]he Church received from them the customary tithes, oblations, and first-fruits. The revenues from the Jewish aljamas, or communities, were always regarded as among the surest resources of the crown.
Further reading[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic الجمع (al-jámaʕ), from Arabic جَمْع (jamʕ).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
aljama f (plural aljamas)
Further reading[edit]
- “aljama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
aljama on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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