zabazoque

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِبُ السُّوق (ṣāḥibu as-sūq, literally “chief of the market”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θabaˈθoke/ [θa.β̞aˈθo.ke]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sabaˈsoke/ [sa.β̞aˈso.ke]
• Rhymes: -oke
• Syllabification: za‧ba‧zo‧que

Noun

zabazoque m (plural zabazoques)

1. Synonym of almotacén.

Further reading

• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “zabazoque”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
• “zabazoque”, 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