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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic. Coromines and Pascual say it is a borrowing of a "vulgar" (or spoken) Arabic term سَليخَة (salīḵa). First attested in the early 17th century in Don Quixote.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θaˈlea/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈlea/
- Rhymes: -ea
- Syllabification: za‧le‧a
Noun
zalea f (plural zaleas)
- sheepskin
Further reading
- “zalea”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
- Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “zalea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 811