almafi

== Old Galician-Portuguese == === Alternative forms === almafil, almofi, ammafide, marfi, marfil, marfim, marfym, olmafi === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “elephant-bone”), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) + فِيل (fīl, “elephant”). Cognate with Old Spanish almalfil. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /al.maˈfi/ Rhymes: -i Hyphenation: al‧ma‧fi === Noun === almafi m (uncountable) ivory (hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants) ==== Descendants ==== Galician: marfil, almafí Portuguese: marfim === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “marfil”, 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), “almafi”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega