zarza

• IPA^(key): /ˈzarza/

zarza

1. inflection of zarz:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

• çarça (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish sarza, itself from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly Old Basque çarci (modern sasi). Alternatively, from Arabic شِرْس (širs, “shrub with thorns”), from the root ش ر س (š-r-s) related to “harshness”, “wildness”, “ill-nature”.^[1]

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθaɾθa/ [ˈθaɾ.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈsaɾsa/ [ˈsaɾ.sa]
• Rhymes: -aɾθa
• Rhymes: -aɾsa
• Syllabification: zar‧za

zarza f (plural zarzas)

1. blackberry bush

   Synonyms: zarzamora, (obsolete) rubo

2. bramble (thorny shrub)

   Synonym: (obsolete) rubo

• “zarza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28