cayá
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كدخدا (kehya) (Turkish kâhya).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: ca‧yá
Noun[edit]
cayá m (plural cayás)
- (historical) kehya (steward or deputy to an agha in the Ottoman Empire)
Further reading[edit]
- “cayá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014