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Definitions and meaning of alpaca

alpaca

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælˈpækə/
• Rhymes: -ækə

Noun

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
3. A garment made of such wool.

Synonyms

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Descendants

• → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
• → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

Translations

Further reading

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈpa.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [alˈpa.ka]

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpaques)

1. alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
2. nickel silver

   Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

Further reading

• “alpaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

1. alpaca

Derived terms

• alpacawol

See also

• lama

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

1. alpaca

Declension

Derived terms

• olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)

Mutation

Further reading

• “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

Italian

Alternative forms

• alpaga, alpagà

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
• Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca m (invariable)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
2. (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
3. (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton

References

Further reading

• alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
2. alpaca (wool from the alpaca)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelídeo; camelo (dromedário, camelo-bactriano), lhama/lama, guanaco, alpaca, vicunha ^{(Category: pt:Camelids)}

Etymology 2

Noun

alpaca f (uncountable)

1. nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /al.paˈka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacale)

1. alpaca (animal)
2. alpaca (wool)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /alˈpaka/ [alˈpa.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)

1. alpaca

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

Derived terms

Descendants

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.

• → Afrikaans: alpakka
• → Arabic: أَلْبَكَة (ʔalbaka)
• → Armenian: ալպակա (alpaka)
• → Belarusian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Catalan: alpaca
• → Czech: alpaka
• → Danish: alpaka
• → Dutch: alpaca
• → English: alpaca
  • → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
  • → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)
• → French: alpaga
  • → Polish: alpaga
  • → Romanian: alpaca
  • → Russian: альпага (alʹpaga)
    • → Armenian: ալպագա (alpaga)
• → Faroese: alpaka
• → Finnish: alpakka
• → Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa)
• → German: Alpaka
• → Greek: αλπάκα (alpáka)
• → Hungarian: alpaka
• → Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
• → Italian: alpaca
• → Japanese: アルパカ (arupaka)
• → Korean: 알파카 (alpaka)
• → Macedonian: алпака (alpaka)
• → Norwegian: alpakka
• → Persian: آلپاکا (âlpâkâ)
• → Polish: alpaka
• → Portuguese: alpaca
• → Russian: альпака (alʹpaka)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: алпака
  • Latin script: alpaka
• → Slovene: alpaca
• → Swedish: alpacka
• → Tagalog: alpaka
• → Ukrainian: альпака (alʹpaka)

Further reading

• “alpaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org