zanja
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See also: zanjá
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]zanja (plural zanjas)
- An irrigation canal in Latin America.
Related terms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθanxa/ [ˈθãŋ.xa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /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
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Basque
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- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish non-lemma forms
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