abalorio
Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic بِلَّوْرِيّ (billawriyy, “crystalline”), from بِلَّوْر (billawr, “crystal”). The Royal Spanish Academy postulates that it came to Arabic from Tamil but notes that similar terms are found in other South Asian languages, including Persian and Sanskrit.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /abaˈloɾjo/ [a.β̞aˈlo.ɾjo]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -oɾjo
- Syllabification: a‧ba‧lo‧rio
Noun
[edit]abalorio m (plural abalorios)
Descendants
[edit]- → Tagalog: abaloryo
References
[edit]- ^ Corriente, Federico (2019 March 11) “Boletín de información lingüística de la Real Academia Española”, in NOTAS A LOS ARABISMOS Y OTROS «EXOTISMOS» EN DLE 2014[1] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy, archived from the original on 17 December 2020
Further reading
[edit]- “abalorio”, 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
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