zanahoria

Asturian

Alternative forms

• cenahoria

Noun

zanahoria f (plural zanahories)

1. carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

Spanish

Zanahorias

Etymology

Metathesis of Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya) (compare Libyan Arabic: سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya)), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría). Cognate to Catalan safanòria, Galician cenoria, Portuguese cenoura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θanaˈoɾja/ [θa.naˈo.ɾja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /sanaˈoɾja/ [sa.naˈo.ɾja]

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• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria

Noun

zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)

1. carrot

Derived terms

• zanahoria blanca
• zanahoria silvestre

 

Descendants

• → Mezquital Otomi: sanoria
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: sanaúria
• → Quechua: sanawrya

Further reading

• “zanahoria”, 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
• zanahoria on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es