nesga

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish nesga.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnez.ɡɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈneʒ.ɡɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnez.ɡa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈneʒ.ɡɐ/ [ˈneʒ.ɣɐ]

Hyphenation: nes‧ga

Noun

nesga f (plural nesgas)

(fabric) gore (triangular patch of fabric)
a narrow and long space

Derived terms

por uma nesga

Spanish

Etymology

From a variant *násqa in Andalusian Arabic of Arabic نَسَق (nasaq).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnesɡa/ [ˈnez.ɣ̞a]
Rhymes: -esɡa
Syllabification: nes‧ga

Noun

nesga f (plural nesgas)

(fabric) gore

Further reading

“nesga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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