alxibeira

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [alˈʃiβejɾɐ]

Noun

alxibeira m (plural alxibeiras)

  1. pocket
    • 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?
    Synonym: peto

References

  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
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