cabaça

Meaning

  1. (feminine) gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)
  2. (feminine) calabash
  3. (feminine) bong (for smoking marijuana)

Hyphenated as
ca‧ba‧ça
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaˈba.sɐ/
Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, possibly metathised from local latin *calapatia via a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

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