oshá

Unknown; presumably derived from a Native American language.

• IPA^(key): /oˈʃa/ [oˈʃa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: o‧shá

oshá f (plural oshás)

1. (New Mexico) osha (Ligusticum porteri)
   • 2007 June 15, Nasario García, Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond (overall work in English and Spanish), Lubbock: ‎Texas Tech University Press, →ISBN, page 34:

     Llegó Basilio y lo que hizo jue que tiró el cabestro primero. Él lo traiba curado con agua de oshá. Llevaba el cabestro de lazar y lo tiró en redondo de ellas y no se pudieron salir porque la oshá reclaman que es una de las cosas más fuertes que hay.

     Basilio arrived, and what he did first was throw the halter. He brought it cured with osha water. He had the lassoing halter, and he threw it around them, and they could not escape because osha is claimed to be one of the strongest things there is.

• → English: osha

• Hills, E. C. (1906) “oshá”, in “New-Mexican Spanish”, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume XXI, number 3 (overall work in English), Modern Language Association of America, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 749
• Kercheville, F. M., McSpadden, George E. (1934) “oshá”, in A Preliminary Glossary of New Mexican Spanish (overall work in English), Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →OCLC, page 47
• Cobos, Rubén (1983) “oshá”, in A Dictionary of New Mexico and Southern Colorado Spanish, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 123