calabaza

See also: Calabaza

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish calabaza.

Noun

calabaza (plural calabazas)

1. A burr gherkin.

Asturian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kalaˈbaθa/, [ka.laˈβ̞a.θa]
• Rhymes: -aθa
• Hyphenation: ca‧la‧ba‧za

Noun

calabaza f (plural calabaces)

1. pumpkin (plant)
2. pumpkin (fruit of this plant)

Leonese

Etymology

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Noun

calabaza f (plural calabazas)

1. pumpkin, gourd

References

• calabaza at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish calabaça, derived from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Or possibly from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة‎ (qarʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Persian خربزه‎ (xarboza, xarboze, “melon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /kalaˈbaθa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /kalaˈbasa/ [ka.laˈβ̞a.sa]
• (Spain) Rhymes: -aθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ca‧la‧ba‧za

Noun

calabaza f (plural calabazas)

1. pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo (a typical pumpkin used for Halloween and autumn seasonal decoration)
2. (Spain, Mexico, Caribbean, Argentina) gourd, pumpkin

   Synonyms: (South America) zapallo, auyama, (Venezuela, Colombia) ahuyama, (Cental America) ayote

3. cep, porcino (Boletus edulis)
4. Ellipsis of calabaza de nuez.; butternut squash

Derived terms

• calabacear
• calabacín
• calabaza bellota
• calabaza butternut
• calabaza de invierno
• calabaza de nuez
• calabazada
• calabazazo (“bump on the head”)
• dar calabazas
• qué te pasa, calabaza

 

Descendants

• → Basque: kalabaza
• → Cebuano: kalabasa
• → English: calabaza
• → French: calebasse (see there for further descendants)
• → Hiligaynon: kalabasa
• → Tagalog: kalabasa

Further reading

• “calabaza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014