aldea

From Spanish aldea and Portuguese aldeia.

aldea (plural aldeas) (India, historical)

1. A village.
2. A villa.

• Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell (1903) Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases

• aldega
• aldeya

Borrowed from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Spanish aldea, Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea/, [al̪ˈd̪e.a]

aldea f (plural aldees)

1. village

aldea

1. absolutive singular of alde

Borrowed from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Spanish aldea, Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈðe.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [alˈðe.a]

aldea f (plural aldees)

1. village, mostly used in medieval chronicles when referring to locations outside Catalonia or of Moorish population

• “aldea”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “aldea” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• aldeia

Attested locally since the 13th century, but uncommon before the 14th. From Old Galician-Portuguese aldea, aldeia, from Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”). Compare Portuguese aldeia and Spanish aldea.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea̝/

aldea f (plural aldeas)

1. village, hamlet

   Synonyms: barrio, lugar, poubea

• Aldea
• Aldea Grande
• Aldea Nova
• Aldea Vella
• Aldeíña
• Cabo da Aldea
• Outraldea

• “aldea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “aldea” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “aldea” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “aldea” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “aldea” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /alde.a/

aldea f

1. Alternative form of aldeia

From Arabic اَلضَّيْعَة (aḍ-ḍayʕa, “village”) via Andalusian Arabic. Compare Portuguese aldeia.

• IPA^(key): /alˈdea/ [al̪ˈd̪e.a]

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: al‧de‧a

aldea f (plural aldeas)

1. village

   Synonym: villa

• “aldea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014