• azoraba,zarafa,zaraffa

Borrowed fromAndalusian Arabic, fromArabicالزُّرَافَة(az-zurāfa).

• IPA^(key): /ad͡zoˈɾafa/
• Rhymes:-afa
• Hyphenation:a‧zo‧ra‧fa

azorafa f (pluralazorafas)

1. giraffe
   • 1489 March 20, Fernán Sánchez de Tovar, chapter IX, inCRONICA DE Loſ Reyes Don Alfonso el X: D.ⁿ Sancho el Bravo: D. Fernando el IV. y D Alfonso el XI,page12v, column 2:

     E otroſi traxieꝛõle vn maꝛfyl ⁊ vna anjmalia q̃ dezjãazoꝛafa[…]

     [E otrosi traxieronle un marfil e una animalia que dezianazorafa[…]]

     And, moreover, they brought him a[piece of] ivory and a beast they called “giraffe”.

2. (chess) thegiraffe piece inGrant Acedrex
   • 1283,Alfonso X of Castile,Juegos diversos de Axedreʒ, dados, y tablas cõ sus explicaçones [Various chess, dice, and board games, with their instructions],page82r, column 1:

     E laʒaraffa es meioꝛ q̃ el peon.

     [E lazarafa es mejor que el peon.]

     And thegiraffe is better than the pawn.

• “azorafa”, inVocabulario de comercio medieval [Vocabulary of medieval commerce] (in Spanish), Murcia:University of Murcia, 2013–2024
• Coromines, Joan;Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “jirafa”, inDiccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page521

Borrowed fromArabicزُرَافَة(zurāfa), viaAndalusian Arabic,^[1]doublet ofjirafa.

• IPA^(key): /aθoˈɾafa/[a.θoˈɾa.fa](Spain,Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /asoˈɾafa/[a.soˈɾa.fa](Latin America,Philippines)
• Rhymes:-afa
• Syllabification:a‧zo‧ra‧fa

azorafa f (pluralazorafas)

1. (obsolete)giraffe

   Synonym:jirafa

• Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 1), 1770, p. 419
• Diccionario de la lengua castellana (volume 10), 1852, p. 81

• “azorafa”, inDiccionario 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”, inTesoro 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

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