sarça

See also: sarca, Sarca, Sârca, and sərçə

Portuguese

Etymology

From Paleo-Hispanic (compare Basque sasi, earlier çarzi). Alternatively, from Arabic شَرَا (šarā, “plant with thorns”), from سَارَاسَا (sārāsā, “to be evil, vicious”).^[1]

Cognate with Asturian, Spanish, and Ladino zarza.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈsah.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾ.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈsaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈsaχ.sɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɻ.sa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsaɾ.sɐ/

Hyphenation: sar‧ça

Noun

sarça f (plural sarças)

Derived terms

sarça ardente

References

^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

[1] Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN

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