sarça
Appearance
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (compare Basque sasi, earlier çarzi). Alternatively, from Arabic شَرَا (šarā, “plant with thorns”), from سَارَاسَا (sārāsā, “to be evil, vicious”).[1]
Cognate with Asturian, Spanish, and Ladino zarza.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: sar‧ça
Noun
[edit]sarça f (plural sarças)