Masculine

jacal

Meaning

  1. (Mexico, masculine) jacal
  2. (Mexico, masculine) hut, hovel, shack

Concepts

ramshackle hut

jeryhouse

Hyphenated as
ja‧cal
Pronounced as (IPA)
/xaˈkal/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl xahcalli, a conflation of xāmitl (“adobe”) + calli (“house”).

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