almirez

Borrowed from Arabic مِهْرَاس (mihrās), via Andalusian Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /almiˈɾeθ/ [al.miˈɾeθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /almiˈɾes/ [al.miˈɾes] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -eθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -es (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: al‧mi‧rez

almirez m (plural almireces)

1. large mortar (as in, mortar and pestle)
   • 1887, Benito Pérez Galdós, Fortunata y Jacinta:

     Papitos cogió la mano del almirez, haciendo el ademán de machacar al señorito la cabeza.

     Papitos grabbed the handle of the pestle, pretending to crush the young man's head.

• “almirez”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024