aljamia
noun
al·ja·mia
variants or aljamiah
ˌälhäˈmēə
plural -s
1
: Spanish written in Hebrew or especially Arabic characters
2
: the Arabic alphabet as adapted for writing Spanish
Word History
Etymology
Spanish aljamía, from Arabic al-ʽajamīyah the non-Arab, barbarian
First Known Use
1822, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- get someone's attention
- get someone's dander up
- get someone's drift
- get someone's goat
- get someone's measure
- get something off one's chest
- get something out of
- get something out of something or someone
- get something over with
- get something right
- get something straight
- get something through to
- get something through to someone
- get somewhere
- get sound pine
- get spliced
- get started
- Agrigento
- agrigentum
- Agrilus
- agrimonia
- agrimoniae
- agrimonias
- agrimonies
- agrimony