alca

• IPA^(key): /alˈħa/, [ʔʌlˈħʌ]
• Hyphenation: al‧ca

alcá f 

1. childbirth of a camel

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “alca”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

From New Latin, from Old Norse alka (“auk”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈal.ka/
• Rhymes: -alka
• Hyphenation: àl‧ca

alca f (plural alche)

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• cala

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• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/ [ˈal.ka]

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• Rhymes: -alka
• Syllabification: al‧ca

alca f (plural alcas)

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• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el alca, un alca

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• “alca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• alca on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es