alcarceña

Spanish

alcarceña

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الكَرْسَنَّة (al-karsanna, “bitter vetch”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /alkaɾˈθeɲa/ [al.kaɾˈθe.ɲa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /alkaɾˈseɲa/ [al.kaɾˈse.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -eɲa
• Syllabification: al‧car‧ce‧ña

Noun

alcarceña f (plural alcarceñas)

1. bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia)

Derived terms

• alcarceñal (“earth full of bitter vetch”)

 

References

• Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcarceña”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79

Further reading

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