almàssera

== Catalan == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈma.sə.ɾə] IPA(key): (Valencia) [alˈma.se.ɾa] === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Arabic المَعْصَرَة (al-maʕṣara, “press”), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate of Spanish almazara. ==== Noun ==== almàssera f (plural almàsseres) olive oil mill Synonym: trull === Etymology 2 === Maybe from Arabic المَزْرَعَة (al-mazraʕa, “farm”), or from Arabic المَشْجَرَة (al-mašjara, “woodland”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Arabic original sense for seedbed referenced in Catalan dictionaries, but link not found”) ==== Alternative forms ==== almàixera ==== Noun ==== almàssera f (plural almàsseres) a seedbed === Further reading === “almàssera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “almàssera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.