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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic بَلُّوطَة (ballūṭa, “oak, acorn”), from Syriac ܒܠܘܛܐ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /beˈʝota/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /beˈʎota/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /beˈʃota/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /beˈʒota/
- Rhymes: -ota
- Syllabification: be‧llo‧ta
Noun
bellota f (plural bellotas)
- acorn (fruit of the oak)
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