zanahoria

• cenahoria

Borrowed from Spanish zanahoria. Metathesis of Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría, “wild carrot”). See more at Spanish zanahoria. Compare Old Leonese çanaforia for a native result.

zanahoria f (plural zanahories)

1. carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

   Synonym: cenoria

• “zanahoria”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, 2000, →ISBN

Borrowed from Spanish zanahoria.

• IPA^(key): /θanaˈoɾja/
• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria

zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)

1. carrot

   Synonym: cenoira

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old Spanish çanahoria, from Andalusian Arabic *سَفُنَّارْيَة (*safunnārya), from Arabic إِسْفَنَارِيَّة (ʔisfanāriyya) (compare Libyan Arabic سفنّاريّة (sfənnāriyya) and Maltese zunnarija), from Ancient Greek σταφυλίνη ἀγρία (staphulínē agría, “wild carrot”).

Cognate to Asturian zanahoria, Catalan safanòria, Galician cenoria, Portuguese cenoura, Mirandese cenoura, Basque azenario and Aragonese zafanoria

• IPA^(key): /θanaˈoɾja/ [θa.naˈo.ɾja] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /sanaˈoɾja/ [sa.naˈo.ɾja] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -oɾja
• Syllabification: za‧na‧ho‧ria

zanahoria f (plural zanahorias)

1. carrot (root vegetable, usually orange)

• → Cebuano: sanahorya, Zanoria
• → Fala: zanahoria
• → Mezquital Otomi: sanoria
• → Quechua: sanawrya
• → Tagalog: asanorya, asinorya
• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: sanaúria

• “zanahoria”, 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
• zanahoria on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es