zabazoque
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic صَاحِبُ السُّوق (ṣāḥibu as-sūq, literally “chief of the market”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θabaˈθoke/ [θa.β̞aˈθo.ke] (Spain)
- IPA(key): /sabaˈsoke/ [sa.β̞aˈso.ke] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -oke
- Syllabification: za‧ba‧zo‧que
Noun
zabazoque m (plural zabazoques)
- synonym of almotacén
Further reading
- Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “zabazoque”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]
- “zabazoque”, 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