yerbal

English

Etymology

Spanish yerbal

Noun

yerbal (plural yerbals or yerbales)

1. A field for growing maté.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾˈbal/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈβ̞al]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝeɾˈbal/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈβ̞al]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃeɾˈbal/ [ʃeɾˈβ̞al]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒeɾˈbal/ [ʒeɾˈβ̞al]

• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: yer‧bal

Noun

yerbal m (plural yerbales)

1. maté field

Further reading

• “yerbal”, 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