zalea

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic. Coromines and Pascual say it is a borrowing of a "vulgar" (or spoken) Arabic term سَليخَة (salīḵa). First attested in the early 17th century in Don Quixote.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /θaˈlea/ [θaˈle.a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈlea/ [saˈle.a]
  • Rhymes: -ea
  • Syllabification: za‧le‧a

Noun

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zalea f (plural zaleas)

  1. sheepskin

Further reading

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