almohaza

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Arabic الْمِحَسَّة (al-miḥassa, “currycomb”) via Andalusian Arabic.

Noun

almohaza f (plural almohazas)

  1. currycomb
Descendants
  • → Tagalog: almohasa

Etymology 2

Verb

almohaza

  1. inflection of almohazar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “almohaza”, 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
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “almofaça”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 161
  • Corriente, Federico (2008) “almofaça”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 155
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