aljama

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

aljama aljamas

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic جَمْع (jamʕ, “to gather”).

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