zaboka

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French avocat. In French, the plural form avocats is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, avocats was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zaboka/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

zaboka

  1. avocado

References

  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN
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