xicranda

Borrowed from Portuguese jacarandá. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “I doubt it comes directly from Portuguese, it must have entered via Spanish”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʃiˈkɾan.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [t͡ʃiˈkɾan.da]

xicranda f (plural xicrandes)

1. jacaranda (tree)
2. jacaranda (wood)

• “xicranda”, 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