azorafa
Old Spanish
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Old Spanish azorafa
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الزُّرَافَة (az-zurāfa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]azorafa f (plural azorafas)
- giraffe
- 1489 March 20, Fernán Sánchez de Tovar, chapter IX, in CRONICA DE Loſ Reyes Don Alfonso el X: D.n Sancho el Bravo: D. Fernando el IV. y D Alfonso el XI, page 12v, column 2:
- E otroſi traxieꝛõle vn maꝛfyl ⁊ vna anjmalia q̃ dezjã azoꝛafa […]
- [E otrosi traxieronle un marfil e una animalia que dezian azorafa […] ]
- And, moreover, they brought him a [piece of] ivory and a beast they called “giraffe”.
- (chess) the giraffe piece in Grant Acedrex
- 1283, Alfonso X of Castile, Juegos diversos de Axedreʒ, dados, y tablas cõ sus explicaçones [Various chess, dice, and board games, with their instructions], page 82r, column 1:
- E la ʒaraffa es meioꝛ q̃ el peon.
- [E la zarafa es mejor que el peon.]
- And the giraffe is better than the pawn.
References
[edit]- “azorafa”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024
- Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “jirafa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 521
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Spanish azorafa
Borrowed from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa), via Andalusian Arabic,[1] doublet of jirafa.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /aθoˈɾafa/ [a.θoˈɾa.fa] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /asoˈɾafa/ [a.soˈɾa.fa] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -afa
- Syllabification: a‧zo‧ra‧fa
Noun
[edit]azorafa f (plural azorafas)
References
[edit]- ^ “I. The Old Spanish Sibilants”, in Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, volume VII, Tremont Place, Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Modern Languages Department, Harvard University by Ginn & Company, 1900, pages 26–27
- Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 1), 1770, p. 419
- Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 10), 1852, p. 81
Further reading
[edit]- “azorafa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
- “azorafa”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021
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- Old Spanish terms derived from Old Persian
- Old Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ped-
- Old Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Spanish terms derived from Classical Syriac
- Old Spanish terms derived from Classical Persian
- Old Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱerh₂- (head)
- Old Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Old Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Old Spanish terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Old Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic
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- Rhymes:Old Spanish/afa
- Rhymes:Old Spanish/afa/4 syllables
- Old Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Spanish terms derived from Classical Syriac
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- es:Even-toed ungulates