Feminine

malga

Meaning

  1. (feminine) mountain pasture
  2. (feminine) secluded alpine farm building

Concepts

mountain barn

Translations

Hyphenated as
màl‧ga
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmal.ɡa/
Etymology

From an Alpine substrate language. The original sense is that of a pasture, the use for a building is secondary; hence no relation with Arabic مَلْجَأ (maljaʔ, “refuge”).

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