cayá
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كدخدا (kehya) (Turkish kâhya).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: ca‧yá
Noun edit
cayá m (plural cayás)
- (historical) kehya (steward or deputy to an agha in the Ottoman Empire)
Further reading edit
- “cayá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014