alpaca

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /ælˈpækə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækə

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:

     Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?

2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
   • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎^[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company:

     A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.

3. A garment made of such wool.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

• → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
• → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈpa.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈpa.ka]

alpaca f (plural alpaques)

1. alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
2. nickel silver

   Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

• “alpaca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

1. alpaca

• alpacawol

• lama

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

1. alpaca

• olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)

• “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• alpaga, alpagà

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/^[1]
• Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
• Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca

alpaca m (invariable)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
2. (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
3. (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton

• alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)

alpaca f (uncountable)

1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /al.paˈka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

alpaca f (plural alpacale)

1. alpaca (animal)
2. alpaca (wool)

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /alˈpaka/ [alˈpa.ka]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: al‧pa‧ca

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

• → Afrikaans: alpakka
• → Arabic: أَلْبَكَة (ʔalbaka)
• → Armenian: ալպակա (alpaka)
• → Belarusian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Catalan: alpaca
• → Czech: alpaka
• → Danish: alpaka
• → Dutch: alpaca
• → English: alpaca
  • → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
  • → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)
• → French: alpaga
  • → Polish: alpaga
  • → Romanian: alpaca
  • → Russian: альпага (alʹpaga)
    • → Armenian: ալպագա (alpaga)
• → Faroese: alpaka
• → Finnish: alpakka
• → Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa)
• → German: Alpaka
• → Greek: αλπάκα (alpáka)
• → Hungarian: alpaka
• → Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
• → Italian: alpaca
• → Japanese: アルパカ (arupaka)
• → Korean: 알파카 (alpaka)
• → Macedonian: алпака (alpaka)
• → Norwegian: alpakka
• → Persian: آلپاکا (âlpâkâ)
• → Polish: alpaka
• → Portuguese: alpaca
• → Russian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: алпака
  • Latin script: alpaka
• → Slovene: alpaca
• → Swedish: alpacka
• → Tagalog: alpaka
• → Ukrainian: альпака (alʹpaka)

• “alpaca”, 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