cajel
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic قَمْحِيّ (qamḥiyy), nisba of قَمْح (qamḥ, “wheat”), also used as cajín for pomegranates, like in Andalusian رُمَّان قَمْحِيّ (rummān qamḥiyy).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈxel/ [kaˈxel]
- Rhymes: -el
- Syllabification: ca‧jel
Adjective
cajel
- used after naranja or naranjo to denote a variety of oranges.
Descendants
- → Tagalog: kahel
References
- Corriente, Federico (2008), “cajel”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 242
- 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 268
Further reading
- “cajel”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014