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noun, masculine

abencerraje

/abenθeˈraxe/

noun, masculine/abenθeˈraxe/plural: abencerrajes

a member of a powerful faction, native to the Emirate of Granada, and rivals of the zegríes.

Related: a lo abencerraje, zegríes y abencerrajes

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بَنُو السَّرَّاج (banū as-sarrāj, literally “sons of the saddler”).