alarguez

== Spanish == === Alternative forms === alarguiz, alguese === Etymology === Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic أَرْغِيس (ʔarḡīs, “barberry”), a borrowing from Berber where arḡīs has been the bark of the root of barberry – azarġīnt the plant –, still present in the same form in Moroccan Arabic and Berber dialects. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /alaɾˈɡeθ/ [a.laɾˈɣ̞eθ] (Spain) IPA(key): /alaɾˈɡes/ [a.laɾˈɣ̞es] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -eθ (Spain) Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines) Syllabification: a‧lar‧guez === Noun === alarguez m (plural alargueces) (archaic) barberry (Berberis vulgaris) Synonyms: agracero, agracejo rosewood, princewood (the slightly aromatic wood of Cordia gerascanthus) Synonyms: palo de rosas, palo de águila ==== Further reading ==== “alarguez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 Corriente, F. (1997), A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 11 Corriente, Federico (2008), “alarguez”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 53 Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 30 Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne; Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869), Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎[2] (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 57 Meouak, Mohamed (2015), La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval: Textes, contextes, analyses (in French), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 91