jícara

Meaning

1. (feminine) a small faience container used to serve hot chocolate or other hot beverages
2. (Latin-America, feminine) a small, woody container, typically made from the fruit of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) or Mexican calabash (Crescentia alata) and used (especially in rural Mexico) to serve hot food in order to preserve its temperature
3. (Central-America, Mexico, Philippines, US, feminine) calabash
4. (El-Salvador, Nicaragua, colloquial, feminine) head
5. (Spain, feminine) Part, or square, of a flat chocolate bar, which can be broken off easily (especially in Andalusia and Murcia)

Concepts

calabash

cup

gourd

small cup

Synonyms

calabaza

cubilete

taza

zapallo

calabacino

Hyphenated as

jí‧ca‧ra

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈxikaɾa/

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl: xīcalli

In summary

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl xīcalli.