álabe

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps Latin ālipēs (“winged”) or alapa (“blow, smack”).[1][2] Compare Romanian aripă (“vane”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈalabe/ [ˈa.la.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -alabe
  • Syllabification: á‧la‧be

Noun

álabe m (plural álabes)

  1. olive branch bent down and reaching the ground
  2. any of the force-transmitting elements of a propelling wheel in a water-mill, flier, vane
    Holonyms: rodete, rodezno
  3. turbine blade
  4. tappet on a fulling wheel
  5. a barrier such as a mat on the side of a carriage so he who drives it does not fall out
  6. sides of a target or shield
    Synonym: alabez
  • alabear (“to bend to make crooked”)
  • alabeo (“bent of a piece of wood”)

Descendants

  • → Basque: alabezki

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “álabe”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 100
  2. ^ Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1907) Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, volume 31, pages 582–586

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