almadraba

From Spanish almadraba.

almadraba (countable and uncountable, plural almadrabas)

1. (uncountable) A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
2. (countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.

• Hyphenation: al‧ma‧dra‧ba

almadraba f (plural almadrabas)

1. alternative form of almadrava

From Andalusian Arabic المضربة (almaḍrába).

• IPA^(key): /almaˈdɾaba/ [al.maˈð̞ɾa.β̞a]
• Rhymes: -aba
• Syllabification: al‧ma‧dra‧ba

almadraba f (plural almadrabas)

1. tuna fishing
2. fishing nets arranged as a fence to corral and catch tuna

• “almadraba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024