alxibeira

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Arabic جَيْب (jayb) +‎ -eira. Compare Portuguese algibeira, Spanish linjavera, Catalan angevera.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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alxibeira m (plural alxibeiras)

  1. pocket
    Synonym: peto
    • 1968, Xosé Farina Jamardo, Co sorriso nos beizos, Vigo: Galaxia, page 9:
      O médico, que cando hai liorta e feridos dá parte da gravedade da mancadura, asegún sexa a alxibeira do perxudicado?
      And what about the doctor, that when there is a brawl and wounded one reports the gravity of the injury depending on the pocket of the injured?

References

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  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “algibeira”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 121