alcarceña

Spanish

alcarceña

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic الكَرْسَنَّة (al-karsanna, “bitter vetch”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /alkaɾˈθeɲa/ [al.kaɾˈθe.ɲa]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /alkaɾˈseɲa/ [al.kaɾˈse.ɲa]
Rhymes: -eɲa
Syllabification: al‧car‧ce‧ña

Noun

alcarceña f (plural alcarceñas)

bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia)

Derived terms

alcarceñal (“earth full of bitter vetch”)

References

Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcarceña”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79

Further reading

“alcarceña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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