alcorque

Spanish

Etymology

Variant of what is found in Portuguese, beside alcorque and alcorca, more originally as alcarque and alfarque, borrowed from well-known Arabic الْخَرْق (al-ḵarq, “breakthrough”) as employed in the sense of a rift for water.[1][2] Northwestern Arabic قُرْق (qurq, “shoe, sandal”)[3][4][5] is a reborrowing from Romance.[6]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /alˈkoɾke/ [alˈkoɾ.ke]
  • Rhymes: -oɾke
  • Syllabification: al‧cor‧que

Noun

alcorque m (plural alcorques)

  1. tree grating (metal covering around the base of a tree, usually on a sidewalk)
  2. tree well (ridge of soil around a tree to conserve water)

Further reading
  1. Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcorque”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
  2. Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 80
  3. Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 131
  4. Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎ (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 93–94
  5. Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes‎ (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, pages 362–363
  6. Ibn Ḵātima (a. 1369) “Un document nouveau sur l’arabe dialectal d’Occident au XIIe siècle = إيراد اللآل من إنشاد الضوال [ʾīrad l-laʾāl min ʾinšād aḍ-ḍawāl]”, in G. S. Colin, editor, Hespéris‎, volume 12, number 1, published 1931, page 26
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