zanahoria
Asturian
Alternative forms
- cenahoria
Noun
zanahoria f (plural zanahories)
- carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)
Spanish
Zanahorias
Etymology
Metathesis of Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʾisfanāriyya) (compare Libyan Arabic: سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya)), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría). Cognate to Catalan safanòria, Galician cenoria, Portuguese cenoura.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θanaˈoɾja/ [θa.naˈo.ɾja]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /sanaˈoɾja/ [sa.naˈo.ɾja]
Audio (Spain) (file) - Rhymes: -oɾja
- Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria
Noun
zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)
- carrot
Descendants
- → Mezquital Otomi: sanoria
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: sanaúria
- → Quechua: sanawrya
Further reading
- “zanahoria”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
zanahoria on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es