abarca
Meaning
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sandal
Concepts
sandal
sandals
shoe
footwear
shoes
abarca
Frequency
Hyphenated as
a鈥ar鈥a
Pronounced as (IPA)
/a藞ba删ka/
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, probably from Basque abarka. Doublet of alpargata, which was first borrowed by Arabic.
New
abarcar
- (transitive) to embrace (to hold with the arms)
- (transitive) to include, to encompass, to comprise, to contain, to make up; to range, to span
- (transitive) to take in (a sight)
- (transitive) to undertake, to embark upon, to take on (a task)
- (Latin-America,transitive) to monopolize, to corner
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