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
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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• 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