alcouce
Galician
Etymology
From a metathesis of Arabic اَلسُّوق (as-sūq, “the market, the souq”).[1] Doublet of azougue.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈkowθe̝/
Noun
alcouce m (plural alcouces)
- small sheltered square in a hamlet or village
- brothel
References
- “alcouce” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- Corriente, Federico (2008), “alcouce”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN