alcancía
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See also: alcancia
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic *كنزية (kanzíyya), from Arabic كَنْز (kanz).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /alkanˈ
θ ia/ [al.kãn̟ˈθ i.a] - IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /alkanˈsia/ [al.kãnˈsi.a]
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: al‧can‧cí‧a
Noun
[edit]alcancía f (plural alcancías)
- cashbox
- collection (at a church)
- (Latin America, Philippines, Canary Islands, Andalusia) piggy bank
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Cebuano: alkansiya
- → Hiligaynon: alkansiya
- → Maranao: alkansiya
- → Tagalog: alkansiya
- → Tausug: alkansiya
- → Yakan: alkansiya
Further reading
[edit]- “alcancía”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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