drassana

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan daraçana, from Andalusian Arabic دار الصنعة (dár aṣ-ṣánʕa), variant of دار الصناعة (dár aṣ-ṣináʕa), from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, literally “house of industry”). Cognate to Spanish atarazana, Italian darsena. The modern form has been influenced by dreçar (“to right, to erect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [dɾəˈsa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [dɾaˈsa.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

drassana f (plural drassanes)

1. shipyard

Further reading

• “drassana”, 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