large haystack kept in storage, often with a pole through its centre
çekim: çoğul almiares
eş: niara, parva
köken: Coromines and Pascual consider it to reflect the ellipsis of an unattested Late Latin (pertica) mediālis (“pole that goes in the middle of a haystack to hold it together”), with the meaning subsequently transferred to the haystack itself. Compare Portuguese almeara, almeada, and almiare (“outdoor hay-shed”), found in Castilian-influenced dialects. They take the Spanish variant ameal, found in…
köken: From an unattested *keben "haystack", which could be an affixed noun form derived from a verb attested in the Sakha collocation отто кэбис (otto kebis, “to stack hay”). Cognate with Tatar кибән (kibän, “haystack”), Kazakh кебен (keben, “haystack”), Karachay-Balkar гебен (geben, “haystack”).