tahúlla

Spanish

Alternative forms

• tahulla (pre-1959)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish tahulla, from Arabic تَحْوِلَة (taḥwila).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /taˈuʝa/ [t̪aˈu.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /taˈuʝa/ [t̪aˈu.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /taˈuʎa/ [t̪aˈu.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /taˈuʃa/ [t̪aˈu.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /taˈuʒa/ [t̪aˈu.ʒa]

 

• Rhymes: -uʝa

• (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -uʝa
• (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -uʎa
• (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -uʃa
• (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -uʒa

• Syllabification: ta‧hú‧lla

Noun

tahúlla f (plural tahúllas)

1. (Malaga, Almería, Granada, Murcia, Alicante, Valencia) a unit of area of 1,118.2336 m²; in Alicante and Valencia in some fields 856, 953, or 1201, 1185, 1246 m²

Further reading

• “tahúlla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014