bugia
Pronunciation: [buˈʒi.ə]
“bugia” is a Catalan word. Its 2 meanings in English:
noun
In Catalan
- espelma
- Element dels motors d’explosió que fa saltar una guspira per l’encesa del combustible.
Etymology
From Bugia (“Béjaïa”), a port in Algeria from which wax for candlemaking was imported, from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya), from Berber. The sense of "spark plug" is a semantic loan from French bougie which has the same origin.
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