alfiz

Borrowed from Spanish alfiz, from Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic حَيِّز (ḥayyiz).

alfiz

1. (architecture) In Mozarabic architecture, moulding which encloses the outward side of an arch.

From Andalusian Arabic [Term?], from Arabic الحَيِّز (al-ḥayyiz).

• IPA^(key): /alˈfiθ/ [alˈfiθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /alˈfis/ [alˈfis] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -is (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: al‧fiz

alfiz m (plural alfices)

1. (architecture) alfiz

• → English: alfiz

• “alfiz”, 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
• alfiz on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es