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drassana.

shipyard

8 characters3 syllables approx.Català language

Meaning & usage

noun[dɾəˈsa.nə]Balearic, Central, Northern[dɾaˈsa.na]Northwestern, Valencia

  1. shipyard

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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”).

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