abalorio
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic بِلَّوْرِيّ (billawriyy, “crystalline”), from بِلَّوْر (billawr, “crystal”), from Persian, from Middle Persian, from Sanskrit वैडूर्य (vaiḍūrya). The Royal Spanish Academy postulates that it came to Arabic from Tamil but notes that similar terms are found in other South Asian languages, including Persian and Sanskrit.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
abalorio m (plural abalorios)
Descendants
- → Tagalog: abaloryo
References
Further reading
- “abalorio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Persian
- Spanish terms derived from Middle Persian
- Spanish terms derived from Sanskrit
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
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