Noun: albafaca
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Estos son otros poluos pora la calentura otrosí, e es que tomen de la regaliza e del çumo [nuevo folio] aluahaca, e del cubebo e del açúcar blanco (These are moreover the powders to heal fever, utilizing licorice, fruit juice, [turn of page] basil, cubeb and white sugar...) [1250, Abraham de Toledo, Momín, libro de los animales que cazan]
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E sienpre [...] la asy como sienbran la simiente del albafaca. E rrieguen la muy bien. (And always [missing word] it [i.e. pomegranate, milgrana] in the same way people scatter basil seeds. And water it very well.) [ca. 1300, anonymous, Tratado de agricultura de Ibn Bassal]
Nouns inflected like albafaca
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Metathesized from Arabic الْحَبَق (al-ḥabaq, “basil”).
Verbs referencing "albafaca"
Spanish Nouns
albahaca.
Translations