sebestén
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sebestén m (plural sebestenes)
Further reading
[edit]- “sebestén”, 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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