Etymograph

English

aljama

Aljama comes from Arabic جَمْع ‘to gather’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentجَمْعjamʕ‘to gather’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1906aljama

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentجَمْعjamʕ‘to gather’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1906aljama

Earliest quotation: 1906, Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of Spain: “[T]he Church received from them the customary tithes, oblations,…”

Every English word from Arabic جَمْع

Today it means

noun A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula.

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Etymograph / Arabic جَمْع / aljama

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