cabaça

Portuguese
cabaça

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, *calabaça, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐˈβasɐ/
  • Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧ça

Noun

cabaça f (plural cabaças)

  1. gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
  2. calabash
  3. bong (for smoking marijuana)
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