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alpaca
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /æl?pæk?/
- Rhymes: -æk?
Noun
alpaca (plural alpacas or alpaca)
- A sheep-like animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
- (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca.
Synonyms
- alpaco, paco (archaic)
Coordinate terms
- (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña (Category: en:Camelids)
Descendants
- ? Gujarati: ??????? (alp?k?)
- ? Thai: ??????? (an-bpaa-gâa)
Translations
Further reading
- alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l?pa?.ka?/
- Hyphenation: al?pa?ca
Noun
alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)
- alpaca
Derived terms
- alpacawol
See also
- lama
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.
Noun
alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)
- alpaca
Declension
Derived terms
- olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)
Mutation
Further reading
- “alpaca” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Italian
Alternative forms
- alpaga, alpagà
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al?pa.ka/
- Rhymes: -aka
- IPA(key): (alternative pronunciation) /?al.pa.ka/
- Hyphenation: al?pà?ca, àl?pa?ca
Noun
alpaca m (invariable)
- alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
- (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
- (uncountable) A fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton.
Further reading
- alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aka
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Noun
alpaca f (plural alpacas)
- alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
- alpaca (wool from the alpaca)
Etymology 2
Noun
alpaca f (uncountable)
- nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al.pa?ka/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: al?pa?ca
Noun
alpaca f (plural alpacale)
- alpaca (animal)
- alpaca (wool)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /al?paka/, [al?pa.ka]
Noun
alpaca f (plural alpacas)
- alpaca
Derived terms
- alpaquero
Descendants
All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.
- ? Afrikaans: alpakka
- ? Arabic: ?????????? (?albaka)
- ? Armenian: ?????? (alpaka)
- ? Belarusian: ??????? (al?paka)
- ? Catalan: alpaca
- ? Czech: alpaka
- ? Danish: alpaka
- ? Dutch: alpaca
- ? English: alpaca
- ? Gujarati: ??????? (alp?k?)
- ? Thai: ??????? (an-bpaa-gâa)
- ? French: alpaga
- ? Romanian: alpaca
- ? Russian: ??????? (al?paga)
- ? Armenian: ?????? (alpaga)
- ? Faroese: alpaka
- ? Finnish: alpakka
- ? Georgian: ?????? (al?a?a)
- ? German: Alpaka
- ? Greek: ?????? (alpáka)
- ? Hungarian: alpaka
- ? Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
- ? Italian: alpaca
- ? Japanese: ???? (arupaka)
- ? Korean: ??? (alpaka)
- ? Macedonian: ?????? (alpaka)
- ? Norwegian: alpakka
- ? Persian: ??????? (âlpâkâ)
- ? Polish: alpaca
- ? Portuguese: alpaca
- ? Russian: ??????? (al?paka)
- ? Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ??????
- Latin: alpaka
- ? Slovene: alpaca
- ? Swedish: alpacka
- ? Tagalog: alpaka
- ? Ukrainian: ??????? (al?paka)
Further reading
- “alpaca” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
alpaca From the web:
- what alpacas eat
- what alpacas are used for
- what's alpaca wool called
- what's alpaca silver
- what alpacas should not eat
- what alpacas need
- what's alpaca wool
vicuna
English
Alternative forms
- vicuña, vicugna
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish vicuña, itself borrowed from Quechua wik'uña.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /v??ku?nj?/
Noun
vicuna (plural vicunas)
- A South American mammal, Vicugna vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.
Synonyms
- (Binomial name): Lama vicugna, Vicugna vicugna
Coordinate terms
- (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña (Category: en:Camelids)
Translations
Anagrams
- UNIVAC
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