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Etymology

Unknown; presumably derived from a Native American language.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈʃa/ [oˈʃa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: o‧shá

Noun

oshá f (plural oshás)

  1. (New Mexico) osha (Ligusticum porteri)
    Synonyms: chuchupati, hierba de cochino, raíz de oso
    • 2007 June 15, Nasario García, Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond (overall work in English and Spanish), Lubbock: ‎Texas Tech University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
      Llegó Basilio y lo que hizo jue que tiró el cabestro primero. Él lo traiba curado con agua de oshá. Llevaba el cabestro de lazar y lo tiró en redondo de ellas y no se pudieron salir porque la oshá reclaman que es una de las cosas más fuertes que hay.
      Basilio arrived, and what he did first was throw the halter. He brought it cured with osha water. He had the lassoing halter, and he threw it around them, and they could not escape because osha is claimed to be one of the strongest things there is.

Descendants

  • English: osha

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