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adarve

wall walk; the path along the top of a city wall, behind the battlementscamino en lo alto de una muralla, detrás de las almenas

Comes from Arabic

الدَّرْب

ad-darb

“the road, the passage”«el camino, el paso»

Arabic today says

مَمَرّ السُّور

mamarr as-sūr

Root

د ر ب

d-r-b

The article

Spanish kept the Arabic article al- glued to the word.

The story

A darb was any road or alley; in Spanish it narrowed to the walkway along the top of city walls.El darb era cualquier camino o callejón; en castellano se especializó en el paseo de ronda de las murallas.

In a sentence

Recorrimos el adarve de la muralla de Ávila.

We walked along the top of the walls of Ávila.

مَشَيْنَا عَلَى مَمَرِّ سُورِ آبِلَة.

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