abalorio
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic بِلَّوْرِيّ (billawriyy, “crystalline”), from بِلَّوْر (billawr, “crystal”), from Persian, from Middle Persian, from Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya). The Royal Spanish Academy postulates that it came to Arabic from Tamil but notes that similar terms are found in other South Asian languages, including Persian and Sanskrit.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /abaˈloɾjo/ [a.β̞aˈlo.ɾjo]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾjo
- Syllabification: a‧ba‧lo‧rio
Noun edit
abalorio m (plural abalorios)
Descendants edit
- → Tagalog: abaloryo
References edit
- ^ Corriente, Federico (2019 March 11) “Boletín de información lingüística de la Real Academia Española”, in NOTAS A LOS ARABISMOS Y OTROS «EXOTISMOS» EN DLE 2014[1] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy, archived from the original on 17 December 2020
Further reading edit
- “abalorio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014