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acequia

/əˈseɪkɪə/
/əˈseɪkjə/

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

noun acequias

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.

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@misc{acequia_2026,
  title = {acequia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/acequia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}