alimoche
Spanish
Alternative forms
- alibuche, aribuche, haribuche, nariguche (Canaries, outmoded, also meaning albatross)
- almiroche (means kestrel)
Etymology
Unknown, speculated Arabic عَالِم (ʿālim) blended with Romance ending. The Canarian forms are contaminated with nariz and buche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aliˈmot͡ʃe/ [a.liˈmo.t͡ʃe]
- Rhymes: -otʃe
- Syllabification: a‧li‧mo‧che
Noun
alimoche m (plural alimoches)
- Egyptian vulture
- Synonym: guirre
Further reading
- “alimoche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019) Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 134, 136, 158