alcorza

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Spanish alcorza.

Noun[edit]

alcorza (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A paste of sugar and starch, used in making sweets.

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /alˈkoɾθa/ [alˈkoɾ.θa]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /alˈkoɾsa/ [alˈkoɾ.sa]
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -oɾθa
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -oɾsa
  • Syllabification: al‧cor‧za

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic القُرْصَة (al-qurṣa), dialectal form of قُرْص (qurṣ, “disk”). Portuguese alcorça, alcorce, Catalan alcorsa.[1][2]

Noun[edit]

alcorza f (plural alcorzas)

  1. sugar-heavy mass to manufacture pastry from it
  2. frosting, icing, sugarcoat to be applied on bakestuff

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

alcorza

  1. inflection of alcorzar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References[edit]

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “alcorza”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 87a
  2. ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 90

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