aljamiado
English
Alternative forms
- Aljamiado
- Aljamia, aljamia
Etymology
From Spanish aljamiado (composed of aljamía + -ado), from Arabic عَجَمِيَّة (ʕajamiyya) or اَلْعَجَمِيَّة (al-ʕajamiyya), from عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs, esp. Persians”) + ـِي (-ī, “relative adjective (nisba) suffix”) + ـَة (-a, “feminine marker, also used to mark language names or to generally form nouns from the adjectives”).
Pronunciation
Noun
aljamiado (uncountable)
Translations
non-Semitic language written in Arabic letters
See also
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.ʒa.miˈa.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒa.mɪˈa.du], (faster pronunciation) /aw.ʒaˈmja.du/ [aʊ̯.ʒaˈmja.du]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.ʒa.miˈa.do/ [aʊ̯.ʒa.mɪˈa.do], (faster pronunciation) /aw.ʒaˈmja.do/ [aʊ̯.ʒaˈmja.do]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /al.ʒɐˈmja.du/ [aɫ.ʒɐˈmja.ðu]
Noun
aljamiado m (plural aljamiados)
- (palaeography) aljamiado (Iberian Romance languages written in Arabic)
- Synonym: aljamia
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʎamiado/
- Hyphenation: a‧lja‧mi‧a‧do
Proper noun
aljamiado m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling аљамиадо)
References
- “aljamiado”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alxaˈmjado/ [al.xaˈmja.ð̞o]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: al‧ja‧mia‧do
Adjective
aljamiado (feminine aljamiada, masculine plural aljamiados, feminine plural aljamiadas)
- (of Romance-language text) written in Arabic letters
Descendants
- → English: aljamiado
Further reading
- “aljamiado”, 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