cabaça

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cabaça

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, possibly metathised from local latin *calapatia via a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -asɐ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ça

Noun

cabaça f (plural cabaças)

  1. gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
  2. calabash
  3. bong (for smoking marijuana)