alabarca
Portuguese, noun/a.laˈbaʁ.kɐ/
alabarca is spelled A-L-A-B-A-R-C-A (8 letters). Alabarca is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “alabarch (chief magistrate of the Jews in Alexandria under the Ptolemies and Roman emperors)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “objeto de grandes dimensões”.
What does alabarca mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinealabarch (chief magistrate of the Jews in Alexandria under the Ptolemies and Roman emperors)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. objeto de grandes dimensões
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alabarca
- alabarcas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alabarca?
- Brazil /a.laˈbaʁ.kɐ/
- Brazil [a.laˈbah.kɐ]
- /a.laˈbaɾ.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.