cabaça
Portuguese
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cabaça
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, *calabaça, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈba.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kaˈba.sa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈba.sɐ/ [kɐˈβa.sɐ]
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ça
Noun
cabaça f (plural cabaças)
- gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
- calabash
- bong (for smoking marijuana)