zarza
Lower Sorbian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zarza
- inflection of zarz:
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
- çarça (obsolete)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish sarza, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Old Basque çarci (modern sasi). Alternatively, from Arabic شِرْس (širs, “shrub with thorns”), from the root ش ر س (š-r-s) related to “harshness”, “wildness”, “ill-nature”.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɾθa/ [ˈθaɾ.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsaɾsa/ [ˈsaɾ.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aɾθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aɾsa
- Syllabification: zar‧za
Noun edit
zarza f (plural zarzas)
- blackberry bush
- bramble (thorny shrub)
- Synonym: (obsolete) rubo
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- “zarza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014