acequia

From Spanish acequia; ultimately from Classical Arabic سَقَى‎ (saqā, “to irrigate”). Doublet of sakia.

acequia (plural acequias)

1. (used in the Southwestern US or in reference to Spain, chiefly agriculture) An irrigation ditch.

• acequia madre

From Arabic السَّاقِيَة‎ (as-sāqiya, “irrigation”), from سَقَى‎ (saqā, “to irrigate”), through Andalusian Arabic. Compare Sicilian saja and Catalan séquia.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /aˈθekja/ [aˈθe.kja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /aˈsekja/ [aˈse.kja]
• Rhymes: -ekja
• Syllabification: a‧ce‧quia

acequia f (plural acequias)

1. (agriculture) irrigation ditch
   • 1875, Benito Pérez Galdós, El equipaje del rey José, chapter 16:

     Los caballos bebían en una gran acequia que de un punto a otro atravesaba el pueblo

     The horses drank from a large ditch that crossed the town from one point to another.

• “acequia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014