alpaca

See also: Alpacca and alpacca

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ælˈpækə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækə

Noun

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)

1. A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
   • 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 210:

     Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?

2. (uncountable) Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
   • 1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London‎, New York: Henry Holt and Company:

     A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.

3. A garment made of such wool.
   • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:

     The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.

Synonyms

• alpaco, paco (archaic)

Coordinate terms

• (Camelids) camelid; camel (dromedary, Bactrian camel), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuna/vicuña ^{(Category: en:Camelids)}

Descendants

• → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
• → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)

Translations

camelid animal of the Andes

Afrikaans: alpakka, skaapkameel Arabic: أَلْبَكَة f (ʔalbaka) Armenian: ալպակա (hy) (alpaka) Assamese: এল্পেকা (elpeka) Asturian: alpaca (ast) Aymara: allpaqa Belarusian: альпа́ка m or f (alʹpáka) Bulgarian: алпа́ка f (alpáka) Catalan: alpaca (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: (please verify) 草泥馬 / 草泥马 (cou2 nai4 maa5) Mandarin: 羊駝 / 羊驼 (zh) (yángtuó), 美洲駝 / 美洲驼 (Měizhōutuó), 無峰駝 / 无峰驼 (wúfēngtuó), 草泥馬 / 草泥马 (zh) (cǎonímǎ) (slang) Czech: alpaka (cs) f Danish: alpaka c Dutch: alpaca (nl) m Esperanto: alpako Faroese: alpaka f Finnish: alpakka (fi) French: alpaga (fr) m Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa) German: Alpaka (de) n, Alpakahengst m, Alpakastute f Greek: αλπάκα (el) f (alpáka) Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā) Hungarian: alpaka (hu) Ido: alpako (io) Interlingua: alpaca Irish: alpaca m Italian: alpaca (it) m Japanese: アルパカ (ja) (arupaka) Korean: 알파카 (ko) (alpaka) Lao: ອູດແກະ (ʼūt kæ) Latin: Lama pacos Macedonian: алпака f (alpaka) Maori: āpaka Norwegian: Bokmål: alpakka (no) m Nynorsk: alpakka m Persian: آلپاکا (fa) (âlpâkâ) Polish: alpaka (pl) f Portuguese: alpaca (pt) f Quechua: allpaqa Romanian: alpaca (ro) f Russian: альпа́ка (ru) m or f (alʹpáka) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: alpaka f Slovene: alpaka (sl) f Spanish: alpaca (es) f Swedish: alpacka (sv) c Tagalog: alpaka Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa) Turkish: alpaka (tr) Ukrainian: альпа́ка (uk) m or f (alʹpáka) Vietnamese: alpaca (vi), lạc đà alpaca, lạc đà cừu Volapük: läpak

wool

Afrikaans: lamawol Armenian: ալպակա (hy) (alpaka) Finnish: alpakka (fi) Greek: αλπακάς (el) m (alpakás) Irish: olann alpaca f Polish: alpaka (pl) f

Further reading

• alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈpa.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈpa.ka]

Noun

alpaca f (plural alpaques)

1. alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
2. nickel silver

   Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

Further reading

• “alpaca”, 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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

Noun

alpaca m (plural alpaca's, diminutive alpacaatje n)

1. alpaca

Derived terms

• alpacawol

See also

• lama

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish, possibly via English, from Aymara allpaqa.

Noun

alpaca m (genitive singular alpaca, nominative plural alpacaí)

1. alpaca

Declension

Declension of alpaca (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative alpaca alpacaí vocative a alpaca a alpacaí genitive alpaca alpacaí dative alpaca alpacaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-alpaca na halpacaí genitive an alpaca na n-alpacaí dative leis an alpaca don alpaca leis na halpacaí

Derived terms

• olann alpaca f (“alpaca wool”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of alpaca

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
alpaca	n-alpaca	halpaca	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “alpaca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025