alcancía
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See also: alcancia
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic *كنزية (kanzíyya), from Arabic كَنْز (kanz).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkanˈθia/ [al.kãn̟ˈθi.a]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /alkanˈsia/ [al.kãnˈsi.a]
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: al‧can‧cí‧a
Noun[edit]
alcancía f (plural alcancías)
- cashbox
- collection (at a church)
- (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) piggy bank
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Cebuano: alkansiya
- → Hiligaynon: alkansiya
- → Maranao: alkansiya
- → Tagalog: alkansiya
- → Tausug: alkansiya
- → Yakan: alkansiya
Further reading[edit]
- “alcancía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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