bellota

See also: Bellota

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa, “oak, acorn”), from Syriac ܒܠܘܛܐ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈʎɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [beˈʎɔ.ta]

Noun

bellota f (plural bellotes)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak)

   Synonyms: gla, aglà

Alternative forms

• abellota

See also

• roure
• alzina

Further reading

• “bellota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “bellota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bellota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bellota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa, “oak, acorn”), from Syriac ܒܠܘܛܐ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /beˈʝota/ [beˈʝo.t̪a]

• IPA^(key): /beˈʝota/ [beˈʝo.t̪a] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /beˈʎota/ [beˈʎo.t̪a] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /beˈʃota/ [beˈʃo.t̪a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /beˈʒota/ [beˈʒo.t̪a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: be‧llo‧ta

Noun

bellota f (plural bellotas)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak)

Derived terms

• bellota de mar
• calabaza bellota

Related terms

• abellotado
• jamón de bellota

See also

• roble

Further reading

• “bellota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Anagrams

• botella