arrafẽes

== Old Galician-Portuguese == === Alternative forms === arrefẽes, arrefenas === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic رَهِين (rahīn). === Noun === arrafẽes f pl hostages ==== Usage notes ==== Only attested in the plural. ==== Descendants ==== Galician: refén, arrafén, refém (reintegrationist) Portuguese: refém === References === Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “arr@fees”, 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), “arraf”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega