abacá

See also: abaca, abacà, and abacă

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abaˈka/ [a.β̞ɑˈkɑ]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧ba‧cá

Noun

abacá m (plural abacás)

  1. abaca
  2. Manila hemp

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.bɐˈka/ [ɐ.βɐˈka]

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧ba‧cá

Noun

abacá m (plural abacás)

  1. abaca (Musa textilis, a species of banana)
  2. Manila hemp (a fibre extracted from the abaca)

Alternative forms

Further reading

  • abacá” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog abaka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /abaˈka/ [a.β̞aˈka]
  • Audio (Venezuela):(file)
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: a‧ba‧cá

Noun

abacá m (plural abacás)

  1. abaca (plant)
  2. Manila hemp (fiber)

Descendants

  • Aragonese: abacá
  • Catalan: abacà
  • Chamorro: åbaka
  • English: abaca
    • Norwegian Bokmål: abaca
  • French: abaca
  • Galician: abacá
  • Italian: abacà
  • ? Malay: abaka
  • Portuguese: abacá

Further reading