sarça
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (compare Basque sasi, earlier çarzi). Alternatively, from Arabic شَرَا (šarā, “plant with thorns”), from سَارَاسَا (sārāsā, “to be evil, vicious”).[1]
Cognate with Asturian, Spanish, and Ladino zarza.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: sar‧ça
Noun edit
sarça f (plural sarças)