balché
See also: balche
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish balché, from Yucatec Maya balcheʼ.
Noun
balché (uncountable)
- An intoxicating beverage made by soaking the bark of the leguminous tree Lonchocarpus violaceus in honey and water and fermenting it.
Spanish
Further reading
- “balché”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Yucatec Maya
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