almofalla

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish almofalla, from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic اَلْمَحَلَّة (al-maḥalla, “encampment”), from حَلَّ (ḥalla, “to dismount”).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /almoˈfaʝa/ [al.moˈfa.ʝa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
  • IPA(key): /almoˈfaʎa/ [al.moˈfa.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
  • IPA(key): /almoˈfaʃa/ [al.moˈfa.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
  • IPA(key): /almoˈfaʒa/ [al.moˈfa.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

 

  • Syllabification: al‧mo‧fa‧lla

Noun

almofalla f (plural almofallas)

  1. (archaic) encampment, encamped army
  2. (archaic) host, army

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.