jícara

• xícara (early modern)

From older form xícara, borrowed from Classical Nahuatl xīcalli.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxikaɾa/ [ˈxi.ka.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ikaɾa
• Syllabification: jí‧ca‧ra

jícara f (plural jícaras)

1. a small faience container used to serve hot chocolate or other hot beverages
2. (Latin America) a small, woody container, typically made from the fruit of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) or Mexican calabash (Crescentia alata) and used (especially in rural Mexico) to serve hot food in order to preserve its temperature
3. (Mexico, US, Central America, Philippines) calabash
4. (El Salvador, Nicaragua, colloquial) head
5. (Spain, especially Andalusia and Murcia) Part, or square, of a flat chocolate bar, which can be broken off easily

   Synonym: onza

• “jícara”, 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
• jícara (vasija) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
• jícara (electricidad) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es