tarabita

Spanish

tarabita in Yaupi, Ecuador

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taɾaˈbita/ [t̪a.ɾaˈβ̞i.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ita
• Syllabification: ta‧ra‧bi‧ta

Noun

tarabita f (plural tarabitas)

1. (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador) a type of cable railway that transports people horizontally

Further reading

• “tarabita”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28