cayá

See also: caya and Caya

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كدخدا (kehya) (Turkish kâhya).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝa/ [kaˈʝa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝa/ [kaˈʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃa/ [kaˈʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒa/ [kaˈʒa]

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ca‧yá

Noun

cayá m (plural cayás)

1. (historical) kehya (steward or deputy to an agha in the Ottoman Empire)

Further reading

• “cayá”, 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