alcarceña
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Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic الكَرْسَنَّة (al-karsanna, “bitter vetch”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
Noun
alcarceña f (plural alcarceñas)
Derived terms
- alcarceñal (“earth full of bitter vetch”)
References
- 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
- “alcarceña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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