balché
See also: balche
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish balché, from Yucatec Maya balcheʼ.
Noun
editbalché (uncountable)
- An intoxicating beverage made by soaking the bark of the leguminous tree Lonchocarpus violaceus in honey and water and fermenting it.
Anagrams
editSpanish
editNoun
editbalché m (plural balchés)
Further reading
edit- “balché”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Yucatec Maya
editNoun
editbalché
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