maracuyá
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See also: maracuya
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Tupi mboruku'ya, or from Guaraní; compare Portuguese maracujá.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: ma‧ra‧cu‧yá
Noun[edit]
maracuyá m (plural maracuyás)
- passion fruit (specifically Passiflora edulis)
- Synonyms: (Nicaragua) calala, (Dominican Republic) chinola, fruto de pasionaria, (Argentina, Spain) fruta de la pasión, maracujá de Brasil, (Puerto Rico) parcha, (Canary Islands, Venezuela) parchita, granadilla
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “maracuyá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Spanish terms derived from Old Tupi
- Spanish terms borrowed from Guaraní
- Spanish terms derived from Guaraní
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/a
- Rhymes:Spanish/a/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Fruits