Etymology

aljama

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Today it means: A self-governing community of Jews and Moors living under Christian rule in the Iberian Peninsula. Full definition →

Arabic جَمْع
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The story

  1. Arabic · derived fromجَمْع“to gather”
  2. English todayaljama

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

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.