almadraba
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English
Etymology
Noun
almadraba (countable and uncountable, plural almadrabas)
- (uncountable) A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
- (countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.
Translations
a Mediterranean fishing technique for catching tuna
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: al‧ma‧dra‧ba
Noun
almadraba f (plural almadrabas)
- Alternative form of almadrava
Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic المضربة (almaḍrába).
Pronunciation
Noun
almadraba f (plural almadrabas)
Further reading
- “almadraba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28