biznaga
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]biznaga (countable and uncountable, plural biznagas)
- Alternative form of bisnaga (“plant of celery family”)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /biθˈnaɡa/ [biθ̬ˈna.ɣ̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /bisˈnaɡa/ [bizˈna.ɣ̞a]
- Rhymes: -aɡa
- Syllabification: biz‧na‧ga
Etymology 1
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بِسْنَاج (bisnāj), بِسْتِنَاجَة (bistināja), بِشْتِْنَاجَة (bištināja), بِشْتِنَاقَة (bištināqa, “parsnip”), from Latin pastināca (“parsnip, carrot”).
Noun
[edit]biznaga f (plural biznagas)
- toothpickweed, khella (Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga))
Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: bisnaga, biznaga
- → Catalan: bisnaga, biçnaga (obsolete)
- → Galician: bisnaga, biznaga, bizniega
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitznahuac (“surrounded by thorns”), from huitztli (“thorn”) + nciuac (“near, around”). Influenced by biznaga (Etymology 1).
Noun
[edit]biznaga f (plural biznagas)
- (Mexico) any of several species of small, prickly cacti, especially barrel cacti
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “bisnaga”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 252, still referring but to reconstructed Andalusi Arabic “*bis(s)ináqa”, oblivious of the attested forms Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 143, 145, 146
Further reading
[edit]- “biznaga”, 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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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡa
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
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- Mexican Spanish
- es:Celery family plants
- es:Cacti