الب

Bulgar

Etymology

Cognate with Turkish alp.

Noun

اَلِبْ (alıp)

  1. warrior

Descendants
  • Chuvash: улӑп (ulăp)

References
  • Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, page 182

Mozarabic

Etymology

From Latin albus.

Adjective

الب (albə or albu)

  1. white
    • c. 1100, Kharja A14 :[1]
      الْقل الب
      əl-quwallu albu
      The white neck.
    • c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A22 :[2]
      الب ديه اشت ديه / دي ذا العنصر حقا
      albə diyya əštə diyya / diyya ḏā l-ʿanṣara ḥaqqa
      What a white day is today, Saint John's day!
      (literally, “White day this day, the day of Ansara!”)

Notes
  • For Kharjas 14 and 22, Corriente reads ⟨'lb⟩ and ⟨'lfa⟩ respectively, which he takes to represent Mozarabic álbo (masculine) and álba (feminine).[3]

References
  1. Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 113-114
  2. Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, pages 162-164
  3. Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, pages 33, 35
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