zurrón

Spanish

Etymology

Speculated to be from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia by comparison to Basque zorro (“sack”). Cognate with Asturian zurrón, Catalan sarró, Galician zurrón, Mirandese çurron, and Occitan sarroû, Portuguese surrão. According to Corriente and co-authors from Arabic صُرَّة (ṣurra) +‎ -ón, the Occitano-Romance vocalization must be due to contamination.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θuˈron/ [θuˈrõn]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /suˈron/ [suˈrõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: zu‧rrón

Noun

zurrón m (plural zurrones)

1. a leather shoulder bag commonly used by shepherds
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 47:

     Los que han creído verle, dicen que es un individuo melenudo y barbón, que lleva colgado al cuello un zurrón grandísimo, en el que guarda el fruto de sus depredaciones.

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2. globe daisy

   Synonyms: cepillo, colubaria, globularia, siemprenjuta

3. Good King Henry, Lincolnshire spinach (Blitum bonus-henricus)

Further reading

• “zurrón”, 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
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 502