zarza

Meaning

1. (feminine) blackberry bush
2. (feminine) bramble (thorny shrub)

Concepts

bramble

blackberry

thornbush

brier

forest

scrub

shrub

shrubbery

spine

thicket

thorn

tree

🌳

bramblein

caneberry

brier patch

brierpatch

jaggerbush

blackberry bush

briar

bush

Synonyms

zarzamora

zarzal

brezal

cardo

espina

frambuesa

mata

matorral

púa

agracejo

árboles

cúspide

brier

planta espinosa

arbusto

tancar

bosque

Hyphenated as

zar‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈθaɾθa/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish sarza, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Old Basque çarci (modern sasi). Alternatively, from Arabic شِرْس (širs, “shrub with thorns”), from the root ش ر س (š r s) related to “harshness”, “wildness”, “ill-nature”.