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See also: Calabaza
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.
Noun
[edit]calabaza (plural calabazas)
- A burr gherkin.
Asturian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]calabaza f (plural calabaces)
Leonese
[edit]Etymology
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Noun
[edit]calabaza f (plural calabazas)
References
[edit]- calabaza at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]From Old Spanish calabaça, derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Less likely from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة (qarʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Classical Persian خَرْبُزَه (xarbuza, “melon”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /kalaˈbaθa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /kalaˈbasa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.sa]
Audio (Chile): (file) Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -aθa
- Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: ca‧la‧ba‧za
Noun
[edit]calabaza f (plural calabazas)
- pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo (a typical pumpkin used for Halloween and autumn seasonal decoration)
- (Spain, Mexico, Caribbean, Argentina) gourd, pumpkin
- cep, porcino (Boletus edulis)
- Ellipsis of calabaza de nuez.; butternut squash
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: kalabaza
- → Cebuano: kalabasa
- → English: calabaza
- → French: calebasse (see there for further descendants)
- → Hiligaynon: kalabasa
- → Tagalog: kalabasa
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “calabaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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