almizcle
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /alˈmiθkle/ [alˈmiθ.kle]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /alˈmiskle/ [alˈmis.kle]
Audio (Spain): (file) - (Spain) Rhymes: -iθkle
- (Latin America) Rhymes: -iskle
- Syllabification: al‧miz‧cle
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic المسك (al-mísk), from Arabic مِسْك (misk), from Persian مشک (mošk), from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle, scrotum”).
Derived terms
- almizclar (verb)
- almizcleño, almizclero (“musky”)
Descendants
- → Tagalog: almiskle
Verb
almizcle
- inflection of almizclar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “almizcle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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