zanahoria

• cenahoria

Metathesis of Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría, “wild carrot”). See more at Spanish zanahoria.

zanahoria f (plural zanahories)

1. carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

Metathesis of Old Spanish çahanoria, from Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya) (compare Libyan Arabic سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya) and Maltese zunnarija), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría, “wild carrot”).

Cognate to Asturian zanahoria, Catalan safanòria, Galician cenoria, Portuguese cenoura, Mirandese cenoura, Basque azenario and Aragonese zafanoria

• IPA^(key): /θanaˈoɾja/ [θa.naˈo.ɾja] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /sanaˈoɾja/ [sa.naˈo.ɾja] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria

zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)

1. carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

• → Cebuano: sanahorya, Zanoria
• → Mezquital Otomi: sanoria
• → Quechua: sanawrya
• → Tagalog: asanorya, asinorya
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: sanaúria

• “zanahoria”, 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
• zanahoria on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es