avarca

Catalan

Alternative forms

• varca

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Compare Spanish abarca (“sandal”) and Basque abarka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [əˈβar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [əˈvar.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈvaɾ.ka]

Noun

avarca f (plural avarques)

1. a type of leather sandal from Menorca

Further reading

• “avarca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “avarca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “avarca” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• avarca menorquina on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca