zaquizamí

Borrowed from Arabic سَقْف فِي ٱلسَّمَاء (saqf fī s-samāʔ, literally “roof in the sky”).

• IPA^(key): /θakiθaˈmi/ [θa.ki.θaˈmi] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /sakisaˈmi/ [sa.ki.saˈmi] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: za‧qui‧za‧mí

zaquizamí m (plural zaquizamíes or zaquizamís)

1. attic; loft
2. hole; crappy room or building

• ⇒ Central Bikol: kisame
• ⇒ Cebuano: kisami, (nonstandard) kisame
• ⇒ Ilocano: kisame
• ⇒ Sambali: kisami
• ⇒ Tagalog: kisame
  • → Spanish: quísame

• “zaquizamí”, 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