alcarceña
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Arabic الكَرْسَنَّة (al-karsanna, “bitter vetch”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkaɾˈθeɲa/ [al.kaɾˈθe.ɲa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alkaɾˈseɲa/ [al.kaɾˈse.ɲa]
- Rhymes: -eɲa
- Syllabification: al‧car‧ce‧ña
Noun
editalcarceña f (plural alcarceñas)
Derived terms
edit- alcarceñal (“earth full of bitter vetch”)
References
edit- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcarceña”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
Further reading
edit- “alcarceña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:Spanish/eɲa/4 syllables
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