txirulari

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Basque txirulari.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃiɾuˈlaɾi/ [t͡ʃi.ɾuˈla.ɾi]
  • Rhymes: -aɾi
  • Syllabification: txi‧ru‧la‧ri

Noun

txirulari m or f by sense (plural txirularis)

  1. a txirula player

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “txirulari”, in Diccionario histórico de la lengua española [Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2013, →ISSN
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