atalaia

From Arabic طَلِيعَة (ṭalīʕa, “a scout; and a party of scouts”), from the verb طَالَعَ (ṭālaʕa, “to inspect”), from the root ط ل ع (ṭ-l-ʕ), the same as طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa, “to watch”).

• IPA^(key): /ataˈlaja̝/

atalaia f (plural atalaias)

1. watchtower

• Atalaia

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “atalaya”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “atalaia”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “atalaia”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Corriente, Federico (2008) “atalaia”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic الطَلِيعَة (aṭ-ṭalīʕa, “a scout; and a party of scouts”) (plural الطَلَائِع (aṭ-ṭalāʔiʕ)), from the verb طَالَعَ (ṭālaʕa, “to inspect”), from the root ط ل ع (ṭ-l-ʕ), the same as طَلَعَ (ṭalaʕa, “to watch”).

• Homophone: Atalaia
• Hyphenation: a‧ta‧lai‧a

atalaia f (plural atalaias)

1. watchtower
2. (Brazil) the highest peak in a mountain chain

atalaia

1. inflection of atalaiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “atalaya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
• “طَلِيعَةٌ in Edward William Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, Williams & Norgate, London: 1863.