almáciga
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Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /alˈmaθiɡa/ [alˈma.θi.ɣ̞a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /alˈmasiɡa/ [alˈma.si.ɣ̞a]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aθiɡa
- (Latin America) 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- 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