Dalyat

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دَالِيَة (dāliyat), informal construct state of Arabic دَالِيَة (dāliya, “waterwheel, vine, railing, etc.”). Coined by Catalan entomologist, archaeologist and speleologist Joaquín Mateu in 2002.

Proper noun

Dalyat f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Carabidae – certain unusual cave-dwelling ground beetles.

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