azorafa

== Old Spanish == === Alternative forms === azoraba, zarafa, zaraffa === Etymology === Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الزُّرَافَة (az-zurāfa). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ad͡zoˈɾafa/ Rhymes: -afa Hyphenation: a‧zo‧ra‧fa === Noun === azorafa f (plural azorafas) giraffe (chess) the giraffe piece in Grant Acedrex === References === “azorafa”, in Vocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia: University of Murcia, 2013–2024 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “jirafa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 521 == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic زُرَافَة (zurāfa), via Andalusian Arabic, doublet of jirafa. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /aθoˈɾafa/ [a.θoˈɾa.fa] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain) IPA(key): /asoˈɾafa/ [a.soˈɾa.fa] (Latin America, Philippines) Rhymes: -afa Syllabification: a‧zo‧ra‧fa === Noun === azorafa f (plural azorafas) (obsolete) giraffe Synonym: jirafa === References === Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 1), 1770, p. 419 Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 10), 1852, p. 81 === Further reading === “azorafa”, 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 “azorafa”, in Tesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language], Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], launched 2021