mostacilla
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mostaˈsiʝa/ [mos.t̪aˈsi.ʝa] (most of Latin America)
- IPA(key): /mostaˈsiʎa/ [mos.t̪aˈsi.ʎa] (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: mos‧ta‧ci‧lla
Noun
mostacilla f (plural mostacillas)
- bead
- Bunias erucago
- Cynophalla flexuosa
- sprinkle
Further reading
- “mostacilla”, 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