alpaca

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /ælˈpækə/
• Rhymes: -ækə

alpaca (plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca.

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

• → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
• → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/

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• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

1. alpaca

• alpacawol

• lama

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

1. alpaca

• olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)

• “alpaca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

alpaca m (invariable)

1. alpaca

• Rhymes: -aka

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)

alpaca f (uncountable)

1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /alpaˈka/
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

alpaca f (plural alpacale)

1. alpaca (animal)
2. alpaca (wool)

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

• IPA^(key): /alˈpaka/

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca

• alpaquero

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

• → Afrikaans: alpakka
• → Arabic: ألبكة‎ (‌ʿalbaka)
• → Armenian: ալպակա (alpaka)
• → Belarusian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Catalan: alpaca
• → Czech: alpaka
• → Danish: alpaka
• → Dutch: alpaca
• → English: alpaca
  • → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
  • → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)
• → French: alpaga
  • → Romanian: alpaca
  • → Russian: альпага (alʹpaga)
    • → Armenian: ալպագա (alpaga)
• → Faroese: alpaka
• → Finnish: alpakka
• → Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa)
• → German: Alpaka
• → Greek: αλπάκα (alpáka)
• → Hungarian: alpaka
• → Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
• → Italian: alpaca
• → Japanese: アルパカ (arupaka)
• → Korean: 알파카 (alpaka)
• → Macedonian: алпака (alpaka)
• → Norwegian: alpakka
• → Persian: آلپاکا‎ (âlpâkâ)
• → Polish: alpaca
• → Portuguese: alpaca
• → Russian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic: алпака
  • Latin: alpaka
• → Slovene: alpaca
• → Swedish: alpacka
• → Tagalog: alpaka
• → Ukrainian: альпака (alʹpaka)

• “alpaca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.