aljava

Borrowed from Arabic جَعْبَة (jaʕba).

aljava f (plural aljavas)

1. (dis legomenon) quiver (arrow container)

   Synonym: carcaix

   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 121, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle]‎^[1], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 44v:

     Et leuauã todos seus arcos tendudos et aljauas ben cheas de saetas.

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   • a. 1460, Fernão Lopes, “Do que aueo ao Iffante dom Joham cõ huum husso ⁊ com huum poꝛco andando ao monte [Of what happened to the Infante Dom João with a bear and a pig while walking on a hill]” (chapter 99), in Cronica del℞i dom ffernando nono ℞y de poꝛtugal [Tale of the King Dom Fernando, ninth King of Portugal]‎^[2], manuscript, page 106v, column 1:

     […] ⁊ arrancou o arçom com huũa grãde aljaua da anca do cauallo.

     […] and he tore the saddle off the horse’s flank with a large quiver.

• Galician: alxaba
• Portuguese: aljava

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aljaua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aljaua”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2025), “aljava”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do Português Medieval [Historical and chronological vocabullary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aljava, borrowed from Arabic جَعْبَة (jaʕba). Cognate with Galician alxaba.

• Rhymes: -avɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧ja‧va

aljava f (plural aljavas)

1. quiver (arrow container)

   Synonyms: carcás, fáretra

• aljava on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt