calabaza
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See also: Calabaza
Etymology
Noun
calabaza (plural calabazas)
- A burr gherkin.
Pronunciation
Noun
calabaza f (plural calabaces)
Etymology
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Noun
calabaza f (plural calabazas)
References
- calabaza at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
Etymology
From Old Spanish calabaça, derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Or possibly from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة (qarʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Persian خربزه (xarboza, xarboze, “melon”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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
- calabacear
- calabacín
- calabaza bellota
- calabaza butternut
- calabaza de invierno
- calabaza de nuez
- calabazada
- calabazazo (“bump on the head”)
- chinche de la calabaza
- dar calabazas
- qué te pasa, calabaza
Descendants
Further reading
- “calabaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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