cajel

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَمْحِيّ (qamḥiyy), nisba of قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”), also used as cajín for pomegranates, like in Andalusian رُمَّان قَمْحِيّ (rummān qamḥiyy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈxel/ [kaˈxel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: ca‧jel

Adjective

cajel

1. used after naranja or naranjo to denote a variety of oranges

Descendants

• → Tagalog: kahel

References

• Corriente, Federico (2008) “cajel”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 268

Further reading

• “cajel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014