abenuz

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَبَنُوس (ʔabanūs, “ebony”), via Andalusian Arabic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abeˈnuθ/ [a.β̞eˈnuθ] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /abeˈnus/ [a.β̞eˈnus] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uθ (Spain)
• Rhymes: -us (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: a‧be‧nuz

Noun

abenuz m (plural abenuces)

1. ebony

   Synonym: ébano

Further reading

• “abenuz”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021