zumaque
Spanish
Etymology
From Arabic سُمَّاقْ (summāq) through Andalusian Arabic سُمَاقْ (çumáq), from Aramaic and Classical Syriac ܣܘܡܩܐ (summāqā, “red; sumac”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /θuˈmake/ [θuˈma.ke] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
- IPA(key): /suˈmake/ [suˈma.ke] (Latin America, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -ake
- Syllabification: zu‧ma‧que
Noun
zumaque m (plural zumaques)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “zumaque”, 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