alcaicería

== Spanish == === Etymology === From Andalusian Arabic القَيْصَرِيَّة (alqayṣaríyya), from Arabic اَلـ (al-, “the”) + قَيْصَر (qayṣar, “Caesar; emperor”) + ـِيّة (-iyya, noun-forming relational suffix), after the fact that such places were built by imperial decree. Cognate with Portuguese alcaçaria. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /alkaiθeˈɾia/ [al.kai̯.θeˈɾi.a] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /alkaiseˈɾia/ [al.kai̯.seˈɾi.a] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -ia Syllabification: al‧cai‧ce‧rí‧a === Noun === alcaicería f (plural alcaicerías) (Spain, Andalusia, especially Granada, historical) A public marketplace where silk merchants would expose their merchandise in order to be charged with the duties they owed to the Moorish monarchs. (Spain, Andalusia) Any marketplace, especially for silk. Synonym: mercado m ==== Descendants ==== → Tagalog: alkayseriya === Further reading === “alcaicería”, 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