English

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Noun

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biznaga (countable and uncountable, plural biznagas)

  1. Alternative form of bisnaga (plant of celery family)

Spanish

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Visnaga daucoides

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /biθˈnaɡa/ [biθ̬ˈna.ɣ̞a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /bisˈnaɡa/ [bizˈna.ɣ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: biz‧na‧ga

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Spanish, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بِسْنَاج (bisnāj), بِسْتِنَاجَة (bistināja), بِشْتِْنَاجَة (bištināja), بِشْتِنَاقَة (bištināqa, parsnip), from Latin pastināca (parsnip, carrot).

Noun

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biznaga f (plural biznagas)

  1. toothpickweed, khella (Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga))
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitznahuac (surrounded by thorns), from huitztli (thorn) + nciuac (near, around). Influenced by biznaga (Etymology 1).

Noun

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biznaga f (plural biznagas)

  1. (Mexico) any of several species of small, prickly cacti, especially barrel cacti
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References

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  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “bisnaga”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 252, still referring but to reconstructed Andalusi Arabic “*bis(s)ináqa”, oblivious of the attested forms Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 143, 145, 146

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