almizcle
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /alˈmiθkle/ [alˈmiθ.kle] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /alˈmiskle/ [alˈmis.kle] (Latin America, Philippines)
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -iθkle (Spain)
- Rhymes: -iskle (Latin America, Philippines)
- Syllabification: al‧miz‧cle
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic المسك (al-mísk), from Arabic مِسْك (misk), from Persian مشک (mošk), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).
Noun
almizcle m (plural almizcles)
Derived terms
- almizclar (verb)
- almizcleño, almizclero (“musky”)
Descendants
- → Tagalog: almiskle
Etymology 2
Verb
almizcle
- inflection of almizclar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “almizcle”, 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