yacija

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Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *iacilia, neuter plural of *iacīle, derived from Latin iacēre (“to lay”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /ʝaˈθixa/

IPA^(key): (most of Latin America, Philippines) /ʝaˈsixa/
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃaˈsixa/
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒaˈsixa/

Rhymes: -ixa
Syllabification: ya‧ci‧ja

Noun

yacija f (plural yacijas)

bed (a place to lay down in, especially one of low quality)
- 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los trabajos y los días”, in El juguete rabioso:
  Indiscutiblemente, era cama de archipobre, un deshecho de judería, la yacija más taimada que he conocido.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
tomb, sepulture

Further reading

“yacija”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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