Word.ws English Dictionary

aljamas

aljamas is the plural of aljama.

Meaning of aljama

Noun

aljama (plural aljamas)

  1. (historical) A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.
    • [T]he Church received from them the customary tithes, oblations, and first-fruits. The revenues from the Jewish aljamas, or communities, were always regarded as among the surest resources of the crown.1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain, volume 1, New York: MacMillan, page 86

Questions about aljamas

What is aljamas the plural of?
Aljamas is the plural of aljama.

Words near aljamas in the dictionary

  1. Alizay
  2. Alize
  3. Alizé
  4. ALJ
  5. aljama
  6. aljamas
  7. aljamiado
  8. Aljanah
  9. aljofar
  10. aljofars
  11. aljotta

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aljamas (page history and authors); aljama (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “aljamas.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/aljamas. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.