alpaga

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /al.pa.ɡa/

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alpaga m (plural alpagas)

1. alpaca (sheeplike animal of the Andes)

• → Polish: alpaga
• → Romanian: alpaca
• → Russian: альпага (alʹpaga)
  • → Armenian: ալպագա (alpaga)

• “alpaga”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.pa.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -alpaɡa
• Hyphenation: àl‧pa‧ga

alpaga m (invariable)

1. alternative form of alpaca

• IPA^(key): /alˈpa.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: al‧pa‧ga

Uncertain. Perhaps related to alpaka (“alpaca”), or more likely related to alpaka (“nickel silver”) with a semantic shift of metal imitating silver > imitation > imitation wine.^[1] First attested in the late 20th century.^[2]

alpaga f

1. (colloquial, derogatory) bum wine

   Synonyms: bełt, jabcok, jabol, mamrot, siara, wino marki wino, żur

   pić alpagę ― to drink bum wine

Borrowed from French alpague.^[3][4] First attested in 1840.^[5]

alpaga f

1. alternative form of alpaka (“alpaca wool”)

• alpaga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• alpaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “alpaga”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 27

alpaga f (plural alpagale)

1. obsolete form of alpaca

• alpaga in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN