cencerro

Borrowed from Spanish cencerro, from Basque zinzerri (“animal bell”).

cencerro (plural cencerros)

1. A cowbell.
   • 2015 August 6, Phil Harrison, “Thursday’s best TV”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Even so, the score calls for Thai gongs, African balaphone and Caribbean cencerros, among others.

Borrowed from Basque zintzarri (“animal bell”).

• IPA^(key): /θenˈθero/ [θẽn̟ˈθe.ro] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /senˈsero/ [sẽnˈse.ro] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ero
• Syllabification: cen‧ce‧rro

cencerro m (plural cencerros)

1. cowbell

   Coordinate term: esquila

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