bellota

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa, “oak, acorn”), from Syriac ܒܠܘܛܐ.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəˈʎɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [beˈʎɔ.ta]

bellota f (plural bellotes)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak)

   Synonyms: gla, aglà

• abellota

• roure
• alzina

• “bellota”, 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
• “bellota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “bellota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “bellota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa, “oak, acorn”), from Syriac ܒܠܘܛܐ.

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: be‧llo‧ta

bellota f (plural bellotas)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak)

• roble

• “bellota”, 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

• botella