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Spanish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sebesˈten/
- Rhymes: -en
- Syllabification: se‧bes‧tén
Noun
sebestén m (plural sebestenes)
- sebesten
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