Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish albafaca, metathesized from Arabic الْحَبَق (al-ḥabaq, “basil”), first attested in the 13th century.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /albaˈaka/ [al.β̞aˈa.ka], /alˈbaka/ [alˈβ̞a.ka]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: al‧ba‧ha‧ca
Noun
[edit]albahaca f (plural albahacas)
Descendants
[edit]- → Basque: albaka
- → Cebuano: albahaka
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: albaja̱quej
- → Russian: альбаа́ка (alʹbaáka)
- → Tagalog: albahaka
Further reading
[edit]- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “albahaca”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 112
- “albahaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aka
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