mazmorra
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See also: mazmôrra
Portuguese[edit]
Noun[edit]
mazmorra f (plural mazmorras)
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Arabic مَطْمُورَة (maṭmūra, “granary, cellar”), from the root ط م ر (ṭ-m-r).
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): (Spain) /maθˈmora/ [maθ̬ˈmo.ra]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /masˈmora/ [mazˈmo.ra]
- Rhymes: -ora
- Syllabification: maz‧mo‧rra
Noun[edit]
mazmorra f (plural mazmorras)
- dungeon
- Synonym: calabozo
- 2023 February 10, Iker Seisdedos, “Relatos de la peor mazmorra de Nicaragua: “Nos engrillaban para dormir o cuando nos llevaban al ‘túnel’. Allí te esperaban los golpes””, in El País[1]:
- El Infiernillo carga la fama de ser la peor mazmorra de Managua. Allí, en esa cárcel de máxima seguridad, Solís, estudiante de Derecho, pasó tres años en régimen de aislamiento, en un “camarote sin luz solar, con la puerta siempre sellada”.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Descendants[edit]
- →? English: massymore
Further reading[edit]
- “mazmorra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese obsolete forms
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ora
- Rhymes:Spanish/ora/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with quotations