zaboka

== Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French avocat. In French, the plural form avocats is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, avocats was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /zaboka/ === Noun === zaboka avocado === References === Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 206