moixama

Borrowed from Arabic مُشَمَّع (mušammaʕ, “waxed; like wax; mummified”), from شَمْع (šamʕ, “wax”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [muˈʃa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [moˈʃa.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [mojˈʃa.ma]

moixama f (plural moixames)

1. mojama (salt-cured tuna)

• “moixama”, 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