alcabala
Appearance
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic القبالة (al-qabála), from Arabic قَبَالَة (qabāla).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [əl.kəˈβa.lə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [əl.kəˈba.lə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [al.kaˈba.la]
- Hyphenation: al‧ca‧ba‧la
Noun
[edit]alcabala f (plural alcabales)
Further reading
[edit]- “alcabala” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic القبالة (al-qabála), from Arabic قبالة (qabāla).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]alcabala f (plural alcabalas)
- (historical) alcavala
- (Venezuela, Colombia) checkpoint (police post at an exit from a city or a highway)
- 2016 July 5, “Asesinaron a dos funcionarios del Ejército en una alcabala móvil”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Los militares custodiaban en una alcabala móvil instalada en el sector cuando fueron atacados por un grupo de hombres armados.
- The soldiers were guarding a mobile checkpoint installed in the zone when they were attacked by a group of armed men.
Descendants
[edit]- → English: alcavala
Further reading
[edit]- “alcabala”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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