biznaga

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English

Noun

biznaga (countable and uncountable, plural biznagas)

  1. Alternative form of bisnaga (“plant of celery family”)

Spanish

Visnaga daucoides

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /biθˈnaɡa/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /bisˈnaɡa/
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: biz‧na‧ga

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic بِسْنَاج (bisnāj), بِسْتِنَاجَة (bistināja), بِشْتِْنَاجَة (bištināja), بِشْتِنَاقَة (bištināqa, “parsnip”), from Latin pastināca (“parsnip, carrot”).

Noun

biznaga f (plural biznagas)

  1. toothpickweed, khella (Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga))
Descendants

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl huitznahuac (“surrounded by thorns”), from huitztli (“thorn”) + nciuac (“near, around”). Influenced by biznaga (Etymology 1).

Noun

biznaga f (plural biznagas)

  1. (Mexico) any of several species of small, prickly cacti, especially barrel cacti
Derived terms

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “bisnaga”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 252, still referring but to reconstructed Andalusi Arabic “*bis(s)ináqa”, oblivious of the attested forms Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 143, 145, 146

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