palenque

From Spanish Palenque, the name of a maroon settlement in Colombia, from palenque (“palisade”).

palenque (plural palenques)

1. (historical) A community of runaway slaves.
   • 2007 October 18, Simon Romero, “A Language, Not Quite Spanish, With African Echoes”, in New York Times‎:

     Different from dozens of other palenques that were vanquished, this community has successfully fended off threats to its existence to this day.

Borrowed from Catalan palenc, from pal (“stake, pole”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈlenke/ [paˈlẽŋ.ke]
• Rhymes: -enke
• Syllabification: pa‧len‧que

palenque m (plural palenques)

1. palisade
2. cockfighting pit, cockpit

   Synonym: reñidero

3. (Philippines) market

• → English: palenque
• → Tagalog: palengke

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