chancla
English
A pair of red chanclas.
Etymology
From Spanish chancla.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑŋklə/
- (Canada, UK) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃæŋklə/
Noun
chancla (plural chanclas)
- (Latin American culture) A slipper or flip-flop
Anagrams
- clachan
Spanish
Etymology
From chanca, from Late Latin zanca, zancha (“a kind of soft Parthian shoe”) from Parthian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃankla/ [ˈt͡ʃãŋ.kla]
- Rhymes: -ankla
- Syllabification: chan‧cla
Noun
chancla f (plural chanclas)
- slipper
- flip-flop
- old shoe
Related terms
- chanclo
See also
- abarca f
- chala
- chancleta f
- huarache m
- sandalia f
Further reading
- “chancla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014