kalavasa

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish calabaça, derived from Paleo-Hispanic *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Less likely from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة (qarʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Classical Persian خَرْبُزَه (xarbuza, “melon”).[1]

Noun

kalavasa f (plural kalavasas)[2]

  1. zucchini; pumpkin; gourd
  • kalavasada (“a mixture of pumpkin and roasted almonds”)
  • kalavasa vazía (“nickname for an ignorant person”)

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, p. 277
  2. ^ “kalavasa”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasure of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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