Noun: algibe
Gender: m
Sample Sentences
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Et de como la fallan es deſta guiſa. que cabo daquella uilla a un campo. ⁊ ay muchos algibes en que ſe allega el agua dela lluuia ⁊ en cabo daquel campo a un monte muy alto de q̃ deſcende agua de q̃ ſe ynchen aquellos algibes. ⁊ quando ſe ſecan en tiempo del uerano, fallan y eſtas piedras. (And the manner in which this [stone] is found is this. In the outskirts of the city there is a field with cisterns that rainwater runs into, and near the edge of the field there is a high mountain from which that water that fills the cisterns descends. And when they dry up in the summertime, the stones may be found inside.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 61v:]
Nouns inflected like algibe
sennor,
sastre,
estrellero,
arçobispado,
guarnimiento,
bezahar,
bezerro,
ysmael,
lenguage,
ivierno,
culuebro,
peligro,
culantro,
sacerdot,
mercader,
zebech,
blancor,
palafre,
ponient,
poderio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic اَلْجُبّ (al-jubb), from Arabic جُبّ (jubb, “cistern, well, pit”).
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