zarza
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzarza/
Noun
zarza
- inflection of zarz:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative dual
Spanish
Alternative forms
- çarça (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Spanish sarza, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Old Basque çarzi (modern sasi). Alternatively, from Arabic شِرْس (širs, “shrub with thorns”), from the root ش ر س (š-r-s) related to “harshness”, “wildness”, “ill-nature”.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɾθa/ [ˈθaɾ.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˈsaɾsa/ [ˈsaɾ.sa]
- (Spain) Rhymes: -aɾθa
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -aɾsa
- Syllabification: zar‧za
Noun
zarza f (plural zarzas)
- blackberry bush
- Synonyms: zarzamora, (obsolete) rubo
- bramble (thorny shrub)
- Synonym: (obsolete) rubo
Derived terms
- zarza armeniana
- zarza boysen
- zarza californiana
- zarza de boysen
- zarza de California
- zarza de olallie
- zarza de Young
- zarza douglas
- zarza himalayana
- zarzal
- zarzamora
- zarza olalia
- zarza pajarera
- zarzaparrilla
- zarzuela
Related terms
- zarzal
References
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
Further reading
- “zarza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014