zanja
See also: zanjá
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zanja (plural zanjas)
- An irrigation canal in Latin America.
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Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθanxa/ [ˈθãŋ.xa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsanxa/ [ˈsãŋ.xa]
- Rhymes: -anxa
- Syllabification: zan‧ja
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Basque zanga, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sengh- (possibly borrowed via Proto-Celtic [Term?]).
Noun edit
zanja f (plural zanjas)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
zanja
- inflection of zanjar:
References edit
- Sobre la etimología del vasco zanga y del español zanja, Fernando Fernández Palacios, in Fontes linguae vasconum: Studia et documenta, Navarra:Institución Príncipe de Viana, 1969. Accessible at Fundación Dialnet
Further reading edit
- “zanja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014