sarça

See also: sarca, Sarca, Sârca, and sərçə

Portuguese

Etymology

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia (compare Basque sasi, earlier çarzi). Alternatively, from Arabic شَرَا (šarā, “plant with thorns”), from سَارَاسَا (sārāsā, “to be evil, vicious”).[1]

Cognate with Asturian, Spanish, and Ladino zarza.

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈsah.sɐ]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˈsaɾ.sɐ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈsaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈsaχ.sɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaɻ.sa/

  • Hyphenation: sar‧ça

Noun

sarça f (plural sarças)

  1. thicket
  2. blackberry bush
  3. bramble

Derived terms
  • sarça ardente

References
  1. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, volume II, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
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