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aljamiado

aljamiado noun: text of non-Semitic languages, especially European languages, written in Arabic letters.

Noun

aljamiado (uncountable)

  1. Text of non-Semitic languages, especially European languages, written in Arabic letters.

Forms of aljamiado

alternative formAljamiado
alternative formAljamia
alternative formaljamia

Origin of aljamiado

From Spanish aljamiado (composed of aljamía + -ado), from Arabic عَجَمِيَّة (ʕajamiyya) or اَلْعَجَمِيَّة (al-ʕajamiyya), from عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs, esp. Persians”) + ـِي (-ī, “relative adjective (nisba) suffix”) + ـَة (-a, “feminine marker, also used to mark language names or to generally form nouns from the adjectives”).

Questions about aljamiado

What does aljamiado mean?
Aljamiado means text of non-Semitic languages, especially European languages, written in Arabic letters.
What part of speech is aljamiado?
Aljamiado is a noun.

Words near aljamiado in the dictionary

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

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