albur

== Spanish == === Etymology === From Andalusian Arabic البوري (al-búri), from Arabic بُورِيّ (būriyy), named from a city in Egypt. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /alˈbuɾ/ [alˈβ̞uɾ] Rhymes: -uɾ Syllabification: al‧bur === Noun === albur m (plural albures) (zoology) bleak (fish); dace Synonym: mújol (figurative) luck, chance, risk (Mexico) a kind of humorous wordplay that relies on sexual innuendo; a risqué double entendre ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “albur”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 “albur”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010 “albur”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019 albur on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es Albur (México) on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es == Tagalog == === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish albur, from Andalusian Arabic البوري (al-búri), from Arabic بُورِيّ (būriyy, “mullet”), said to come from Coptic ⲫⲟⲣⲓ (phori, “Mugil cephalus”), from Egyptian br. === Pronunciation === (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔalˈbuɾ/ [ʔɐlˈbʊɾ] Rhymes: -uɾ Syllabification: al‧bur === Noun === albúr (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔) bleak (fish) === Further reading === Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 21