abacá
See also: abaca, abacà, and abacă
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog abaka.
Noun
abacá m (plural abacás)
- abaca
- Manilla hemp
Further reading
- “abacá” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog abaka.
Noun
abacá m (plural abacás)
- abaca (Musa textilis, a species of banana)
- Manila hemp (a fibre extracted from the abaca)
Alternative forms
- alvacá (rare, obsolete)
Further reading
- “abacá” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Tagalog abaka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /abaˈka/ [a.β̞aˈka]
- Rhymes: -a
- Syllabification: a‧ba‧cá
Noun
abacá m (plural abacás)
- abaca
- Manilla hemp
Descendants
- → English: abaca
- → Norwegian Bokmål: abaca
Further reading
- “abacá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014