almadraba
English
Noun
almadraba (countable and uncountable, plural almadrabas)
- (uncountable) A Mediterranean fishing technique for catching Atlantic bluefin tuna consisting of suspending nets in walls that guide the fish to a central net trap where they are caught for slaughter.
- (countable) An arrangement of nets for this purpose.
Portuguese
Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic المضربة (almaḍrába).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /almaˈdɾaba/ [al.maˈð̞ɾa.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -aba
- Syllabification: al‧ma‧dra‧ba
Noun
almadraba f (plural almadrabas)
Further reading
- “almadraba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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