yatagán

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish yatağan.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝataˈɡan/ [ɟ͡ʝa.t̪aˈɣ̞ãn]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝataˈɡan/ [ɟ͡ʝa.t̪aˈɣ̞ãn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃataˈɡan/ [ʃa.t̪aˈɣ̞ãn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒataˈɡan/ [ʒa.t̪aˈɣ̞ãn]

• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ya‧ta‧gán

Noun

yatagán m (plural yataganes)

1. yataghan (type of sword)

Further reading

• “yatagán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014