cabaça

Portuguese

cabaça

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, possibly metathised from local latin *calapatia via a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈba.sɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈba.sɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈba.sa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈba.sɐ/ [kɐˈβa.sɐ]

• Rhymes: -asɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ça

Noun

cabaça f (plural cabaças)

1. gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
2. calabash
3. bong (for smoking marijuana)