sarça

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See also: sarca, Sarca, Sârca, and sərçə

Portuguese

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (compare Basque sasi, earlier çarzi). Alternatively, from Arabic شَرَا (šarā, “plant with thorns”), from سَارَاسَا (sārāsā, “to be evil, vicious”).

Cognate with Asturian, Spanish, and Ladino zarza.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: sar‧ça

Noun

sarça f (plural sarças)

  1. thicket
  2. blackberry bush
  3. bramble

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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