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)

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

“alxibeira” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“alxibeira” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
“alxibeira” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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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