abacá

Borrowed from Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.

• IPA^(key): /abaˈka/ [a.β̞ɑˈkɑ]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧cá

abacá m (plural abacás)

1. abaca
2. Manila hemp

• “abacá”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Borrowed from Spanish abacá, from Tagalog abaka.

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧cá

abacá m (plural abacás)

1. abaca (Musa textilis, a species of banana)
2. Manila hemp (a fibre extracted from the abaca)

• alvacá (rare, obsolete)

• “abacá”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “abacá” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “abacá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Tagalog abaka.

• IPA^(key): /abaˈka/ [a.β̞aˈka]

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧cá

abacá m (plural abacás)

1. abaca (plant)
2. Manila hemp (fiber)

• “abacá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• Abella, Venancio María de (1874), Vade-Mecum Filipino ó manual de la conversacion familiar Español-Tagalog. Seguido de un curioso Vocabulario de Modismos Manileños., 12.ᵃ edition (overall work in Philippine Spanish and Tagalog), Escolta, Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier, á cargo de C. Miralles., page 110