zarza
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]zarza
- inflection of zarz:
Spanish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish sarza, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Old Basque çarci (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
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɾθa/ [ˈθaɾ.θa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsaɾsa/ [ˈsaɾ.sa]
- Rhymes: -aɾθa
- Rhymes: -aɾsa
- Syllabification: zar‧za
Noun
[edit]zarza f (plural zarzas)
- blackberry bush
- bramble (thorny shrub)
- Synonym: (obsolete) rubo
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 333:
- Cuando Jesucristo y San Pedro andaban por el mundo, no siempre encontraban almas caritativas que los socorriesen, y en muchas ocasiones tuvieron que buscarse el sustento con el sudor de sus frentes. Una de estas veces, en que al Santo le tocó echar el quilo y arañarse cruelmente las manos por recoger un puñado de trigo que unos arrieros habían dejado caer entre las zarzas del camino, el pobre viejo se encaró con su maestro y le dijo […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “zarza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾθa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾθa/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾsa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾsa/2 syllables
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