nácar

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.kɐʁ/
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈna.kɐɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈna.kɐʁ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈna.kaɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈna.kaɾ/

Hyphenation: ná‧car

Noun

nácar m (plural nácares)

nacre (pearly substance on the interior of mollusk shells)
Synonym: madrepérola

Spanish

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nácar

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan nacre or Old French nacre, nacaire, from Medieval Latin nacchara, from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnakaɾ/
Rhymes: -akaɾ
Syllabification: ná‧car

Noun

nácar m (plural nácares)

nacre, mother of pearl

Derived terms

See also

madreperla

Further reading

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

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