adarme
an old, very small weight (about 1.8 g); a tiny amountantiguo peso muy pequeño (unos 1,8 g); cantidad mínima
Comes from Arabic
الدِّرْهَم
ad-dirham
“drachma, a silver coin and weight”«dracma, moneda y peso de plata»
Arabic today says
دِرْهَم
dirham
And it still does
The article
Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.
Arabic itself had taken it from Greek.
The story
From Greek drachmḗ. The dirham is still the currency of Morocco and the Emirates; in Spanish it survives in "ni un adarme", not a bit, nothing at all.Del griego drachmḗ. El dírham sigue siendo la moneda de Marruecos y de los Emiratos; en español quedó en «ni un adarme», nada en absoluto.
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