Alenquer

• Alanquer

Uncertain^[1]:

• Tartessian Alan-kerk-kana;
• Germanic *Alenen-kerk, *Alano-kerk or *Alan-kerk, meaning church, temple, castle or fortress of the Alans.
• Suevic *Alankana;
• Arabic العَيْنُ الكِير (al-ʕaynu l-kīr, “blessed spring”);
• Arabic الحَاكِم (al-ḥākim, “the governor”).
• from Arabic ال (al-) + Latin iuncarium (“growth of rushes”), via Mozarabic [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /aleŋkɛɾ/

Alenquer

1. a village in Portugal
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 271 (facsimile):

     Deſto direi un miragre que fez aqueſta ſennor. grande mui marauilloſo eno Rio Dazamor. que Morabe é chamado por lo Alcaide maẏor. dũa naue que ẏ era de Rei ſennor DAlenquer.

     Of this I will tell a miracle that the lady worked, great and wonderful, in the Azamor river, that is called Morabe by the major alcaide, of a ship which belonged to the King lord of Alenquer.

From Old Galician-Portuguese Alenquer.

• Hyphenation: A‧len‧quer

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Alenquer m

1. a village and municipality of Lisbon district, Portugal

• alenquerense