Noun: carcaj
Gender: m
Hyphenation: car‧caj
| Singular m | carcaj |
| Plural m | carcajes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like carcaj
ionizador,
serbal,
serial,
serpol,
serval,
depurador,
sector,
sentir,
sensor,
senior,
sauzal,
sartal,
safrol,
santol,
saibey,
salmer,
urunday,
definidor,
cristóbal,
superconductor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Spanish carcax, from Old French carcois, carquais, tarquait, tarchais, borrowed in turn from Byzantine Greek καρκάσιον (karkásion), a medieval variant of ταρκάσιον (tarkásion), from Arabic تِرْكَاش (tirkāš), from Persian تیرکش (tirkaš). The -x in Old Spanish may be due to Old Catalan carcax (modern Catalan carcaix) as an intermediate. See: Catalan Nouns '
carcaix'.
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