cayá
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish كدخدا (kehya) (Turkish kâhya).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: ca‧yá
Noun
[edit]cayá m (plural cayás)
- (historical) kehya (steward or deputy to an agha in the Ottoman Empire)
Further reading
[edit]- “cayá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014