calabaza

calabaza f (plural calabaces)

1. pumpkin (plant)
2. pumpkin (fruit of this plant)

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calabaza f (plural calabazas)

1. pumpkin, gourd

• AEDLL

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapacceu (compare Catalan carabassa). Or, possibly from Arabic قَرْعَة يَابِسَة‎ (qarʿa yābisa, “dry gourd”), which is from Persian خربزه‎ (xarboza, xarboze, “melon”).

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /kalaˈbaθa/, [kalaˈβaθa]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /kalaˈbasa/, [kalaˈβasa]

calabaza f (plural calabazas)

1. (Spain, Mexico, Caribbean, Argentina) pumpkin, gourd
2. cep, porcino (Boletus edulis)

• zapallo (South America)
• auyama, ahuyama (Venezuela, Colombia)

• “calabaza” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.