alimoche

• alibuche, aribuche, haribuche, nariguche (Canary Islands, outmoded, also meaning albatross)
• almiroche (means kestrel)

Unknown, speculated Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim) blended with Romance ending. The Canarian forms are contaminated with nariz and buche.

• IPA^(key): /aliˈmot͡ʃe/ [a.liˈmo.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -otʃe
• Syllabification: a‧li‧mo‧che

alimoche m (plural alimoches)

1. Egyptian vulture

   Synonym: guirre

• “alimoche”, 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
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “al/ribuche; alimoche; almiroche”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 134, 136, 158