alcorza
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]alcorza (uncountable)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alˈkoɾθa/ [alˈkoɾ.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alˈkoɾsa/ [alˈkoɾ.sa]
- Rhymes: -oɾθa
- Rhymes: -oɾsa
- Syllabification: al‧cor‧za
Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic القُرْصَة (al-qurṣa), dialectal form of قُرْص (qurṣ, “disk”). Portuguese alcorça, alcorce, Catalan alcorsa.[1][2]
Noun
[edit]alcorza f (plural alcorzas)
- sugar-heavy mass to manufacture pastry from it
- frosting, icing, sugarcoat to be applied on bakestuff
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]alcorza
- inflection of alcorzar:
References
[edit]- ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcorza”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 87a
- ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 90
Further reading
[edit]- “alcorza”, 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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- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾθa
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