alca

See also: Alca, álca, Alča, alça, alçà, and alçâ

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈħa/ [ʔʌlˈħʌ]
• Hyphenation: al‧ca

Noun

alcá f 

1. childbirth of a camel

Declension

Declension of alcá
absolutive	alcá
predicative	alcá
subjective	alcá
genitive	alcá
Postpositioned forms l-case alcál k-case alcák t-case alcát h-case alcáh

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “alca”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin, from Old Norse alka (“auk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ka/
• Rhymes: -alka
• Hyphenation: àl‧ca

Noun

alca f (plural alche)

1. auk

Anagrams

• cala

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/ [ˈal.ka]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -alka
• Syllabification: al‧ca

Noun

alca f (plural alcas)

1. auk

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el alca, un alca

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Derived terms

• alca gigante

 

Further reading

• “alca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28
• alca on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es