drassana

== Catalan == === Etymology === Inherited from Old Catalan daraçana, from Andalusian Arabic دار الصنعة (dár aṣ-ṣánʕa), variant of دار الصناعة (dár aṣ-ṣináʕa), from Arabic دَار اَلصِّنَاعَة (dār aṣ-ṣināʕa, literally “house of industry”). Cognate to Spanish atarazana, Italian darsena. The modern form has been influenced by dreçar (“to right, to erect”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [dɾəˈsa.nə] IPA(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [dɾaˈsa.na] === Noun === drassana f (plural drassanes) shipyard === Further reading === “drassana”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007