borceguí

First attested in Old French broissequin (1316), probably with known suffix -in from Arabic بَرْذَعَة (barḏaʕa, “saddle-pad”), a material reused for shoes.

• IPA^(key): /boɾθeˈɡi/ [boɾ.θeˈɣ̞i] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /boɾseˈɡi/ [boɾ.seˈɣ̞i] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: bor‧ce‧guí

borceguí m (plural borceguíes or borceguís)

1. (Latin America) combat boot
2. historical Spanish boot of the Middle Ages

• “borceguí”, 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
• Pezzi Martínez, Elena (1979), “Origen oriental del vocablo borceguí”, in Miscelánea de estudios árabes y hebraicos‎^[1] (in Spanish), volumes 27–28, pages 79–109