Noun: bacallà
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bacallà |
| Plural m | bacallans |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bacallà
sobirà,
xamfrà,
bacallà,
passamà,
nord-coreà,
portolà,
salesià,
capellà,
cordovà,
calabrià,
morrissà,
antimicrobià,
cartoixà,
castellà,
entrepà,
catamarà,
mirabajà,
mirabolà,
ancià,
escrivà, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Dutch bakkeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Latin baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks.
2. If the element *bak- is a metathesis of *kab- (compare French cabillaud and German Kabeljau from Dutch kabeljauw), then the original form of the word could have been *cabalao, maybe meaning "large-headed fish". First attested in 1640.
3. Cognate to Italian baccalà, Portuguese bacalhau, Spanish bacalao. See: Dutch Nouns '
bakkeljauw', Latin Nouns '
baculum', French Nouns '
cabillaud', German Nouns '
Kabeljau', Dutch Nouns '
kabeljauw', Italian Nouns '
baccalà', Portuguese Nouns '
bacalhau', Spanish Nouns '
bacalao'.
Verbs referencing "bacallà"
Portuguese Nouns
bacalhau, Spanish Nouns
bacalao.
Translations