alimoche
التعريفات والمعاني
== Spanish ==
=== Alternative forms ===
alibuche, aribuche, haribuche, nariguche (Canary Islands, outmoded, also meaning albatross)
almiroche (means kestrel)
=== Etymology ===
Unknown, speculated Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim) blended with Romance ending. The Canarian forms are contaminated with nariz and buche.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /aliˈmot͡ʃe/ [a.liˈmo.t͡ʃe]
Rhymes: -otʃe
Syllabification: a‧li‧mo‧che
=== Noun ===
alimoche m (plural alimoches)
Egyptian vulture
Synonym: guirre
=== Further reading ===
“alimoche”, 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, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “al/ribuche; alimoche; almiroche”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 134, 136, 158