almadraba
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
almadraba (countable and uncountable, plural almadrabas)
- (uncountable) A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
- (countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.
Translations[edit]
a Mediterranean fishing technique for catching tuna
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: al‧ma‧dra‧ba
Noun[edit]
almadraba f (plural almadrabas)
- Alternative form of almadrava
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Andalusian Arabic المضربة (almaḍrába).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
almadraba f (plural almadrabas)
Further reading[edit]
- “almadraba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Fishing
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aba
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- es:Fishing