rejalgar
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic رَهْج اَلْغَار (rahj al-ḡār, “realgar”, literally “cave dust”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]rejalgar m (plural rejalgares)
- realgar
- (Oaxaca) tropical milkweed (Asclepias curassavica)
- (State of Mexico) Colocasia antiquorum
- (Oaxaca) Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia
- (Sinaloa) Cascabela ovata
References
[edit]- Catalogo alfabético de nombres vulgares y científicos de plantas que existen en México, México: Imprenta de la Dirección de Estudios Biológicos, 1923, page 532
Further reading
[edit]- “rejalgar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Spanish terms borrowed from Arabic
- Spanish terms derived from Arabic
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɾ/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Minerals
- es:Dogbane family plants
- Oaxacan Spanish
- es:Arum family plants
- Sinaloa Spanish