zagua
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Though the Andalusian Arabic is unattested, this Castilian form exposes typical Andalusian Spanish developments, avowing itself to be from a variant of Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ) as well as synonymously used Catalan sosa whence sosa and Italian soda whence soda.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɡwa/ [ˈθa.ɣ̞wa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsaɡwa/ [ˈsa.ɣ̞wa]
- Rhymes: -aɡwa
- Syllabification: za‧gua
Noun
[edit]zagua f (plural zaguas)
Further reading
[edit]- “zagua”, 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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- Spanish terms borrowed from Andalusian Arabic
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- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa/2 syllables
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