calabaza
See also: Calabaza
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.
Noun edit
calabaza (plural calabazas)
- A burr gherkin.
Asturian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
calabaza f (plural calabaces)
Leonese edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
calabaza f (plural calabazas)
References edit
- calabaza at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Spanish calabaça, derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Or possibly from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة (qarʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Persian خربزه (xarboza, xarboze, “melon”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /kalaˈbaθa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /kalaˈbasa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.sa]
Audio (Chile): (file) Audio (Spain): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: ca‧la‧ba‧za
Noun edit
calabaza f (plural calabazas)
- pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo (a typical pumpkin used for Halloween and autumn seasonal decoration)
- (Spain, Mexico, Caribbean, Argentina) gourd, pumpkin
- cep, porcino (Boletus edulis)
- Ellipsis of calabaza de nuez.; butternut squash
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Basque: kalabaza
- → Cebuano: kalabasa
- → English: calabaza
- → French: calebasse (see there for further descendants)
- → Hiligaynon: kalabasa
- → Tagalog: kalabasa
Further reading edit
- “calabaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014