alcarceña
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic الكَرْسَنَّة (al-karsanna, “bitter vetch”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkaɾˈθeɲa/ [al.kaɾˈθe.ɲa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alkaɾˈseɲa/ [al.kaɾˈse.ɲa]
- Rhymes: -eɲa
- Syllabification: al‧car‧ce‧ña
Noun
[edit]alcarceña f (plural alcarceñas)
Derived terms
[edit]- alcarceñal (“earth full of bitter vetch”)
References
[edit]- Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcarceña”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
Further reading
[edit]- “alcarceña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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