alca

• IPA^(key): /ʌlˈħʌ/
• 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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• IPA^(key): /ˈalka/ [ˈal.ka]

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• Rhymes: -alka
• Syllabification: al‧ca

alca f (plural alcas)

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• The feminine noun alca is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed /a/ sound in that it takes the articles el and un (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el alca

un alca

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with stressed /a/ such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la or una.

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