hamaca

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈma.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈma.ka]

Noun

hamaca f (plural hamaques)

1. hammock

Further reading

• “hamaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “hamaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “hamaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “hamaca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Interlingua

Noun

hamaca (plural hamacas)

1. hammock

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaka/ [aˈma.ka]

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ha‧ma‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Taíno hamaca.

Noun

hamaca f (plural hamacas)

1. hammock
2. (Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay)^[1] swing

   Synonym: columpio

Derived terms

• hamaca paraguaya (“hammock”) (Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay)
• hamacar
• hamaquear
• sillón de hamaca

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: hamaca
• → English: hammock
• ⇒ Esperanto: hamako
• → French: hamac
  • → Ottoman Turkish: حاماق (hamak)
    • Turkish: hamak
  • → Romanian: hamac
  • → Russian: гама́к (gamák)
    • → Armenian: գամակ (gamak)
• → Italian: amaca
• → Portuguese: maca
• → Sranan Tongo: amaka

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hamaca

1. inflection of hamacar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

1. “hamaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Further reading

• “hamaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10