acequia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An irrigation ditch, chiefly with reference to Mexico or the southwestern US.
    — Las Vegas—“The Meadows” in Spanish—was a hodgepodge of adobe houses, set among rustling cornfields irrigated by a muddy acequia that seeped from the Gallinas River.

词形变化

acequias plural

词源

From Spanish acequia, from Arabic الساقیة (“water conduit”), ultimately from Classical Arabic سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”). Doublet of sakia.
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