almáciga
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alˈmaθiɡa/ [alˈma.θi.ɣ̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alˈmasiɡa/ [alˈma.si.ɣ̞a]
- Rhymes: -aθiɡa
- Rhymes: -asiɡa
- Syllabification: al‧má‧ci‧ga
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مَسْقًى (masqan) via Andalusian Arabic.
Noun
[edit]almáciga f (plural almácigas)
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic مُصْطَكَى (muṣṭakā, “mastic”), from Ancient Greek μαστίχη (mastíkhē, “mastic”), through Andalusian Arabic.
Noun
[edit]almáciga f (plural almácigas)
- a yellowy resin extracted from Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), mastic
Further reading
[edit]- “almáciga”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish 4-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aθiɡa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aθiɡa/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/asiɡa
- Rhymes:Spanish/asiɡa/4 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Andalusian Arabic
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- es:Gums and resins