azaveche

• asibiche, azebeche, azibiche, aziviche

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سبج (sabáj), from Arabic سَبَج (sabaj), borrowed from Middle Persian špk' (/⁠šabag⁠/), from šp (/⁠šab⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎧𐏁𐎱 (x-š-p /⁠xšapa⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *xšáfš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kšáps, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷséps. Cognate with Old Spanish azabache.

azaveche m (plural azaveches)

1. jet (hard, black form of coal)
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, chapter 171, in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, page 73r:

     Et o caualo era todo rrodado de mãchas. hũas tã brãcas cõmo a neue ⁊ outs tã negras cõmo azauechs.

     And the horse was all covered with spots, some as white as snow and others as black as jet.

• Galician: acibeche
• Portuguese: azeviche

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