# alpaca
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ælˈpækə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ækə

### Noun

alpaca (countable and uncountable, plural alpacas or alpaca)
* 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?
* (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.
* 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

#### Descendants

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

#### Translations
### Further reading

* alpaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Vicugna pacos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əlˈpa.kə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [alˈpa.ka]

### Noun

alpaca f (plural alpaques)
* alpaca (animal, fiber, and textile)
* nickel silver
    Synonyms: argentan, plata alemanya

### Further reading

* “alpaca” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌɑlˈpaː.kaː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

### Noun

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

#### Declension

bare forms
case
singular
plural
nominative
alpaca
alpacaí
vocative
a alpaca
a alpacaí
genitive
alpaca
alpacaí
dative
alpaca
alpacaí
forms with the definite article
case
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

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

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* alpaga, alpagà

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alˈpa.ka/, (traditional) /ˈal.pa.ka/
* Rhymes: -aka, (traditional) -alpaka
* Hyphenation: al‧pà‧ca, (traditional) àl‧pa‧ca

### Noun

alpaca m (invariable)
* alpaca (Vicugna pacos)
* (uncountable) alpaca (wool)
* (uncountable) a fabric made out of a mixture of wool and cotton

### References

* ↑ alpaca in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* alpaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /awˈpa.kɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈpa.kɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /awˈpa.kɐ/ [aʊ̯ˈpa.kɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /awˈpa.ka/ [aʊ̯ˈpa.ka]
* (Portugal) IPA: /alˈpa.kɐ/ [aɫˈpa.kɐ]
* Rhymes: -akɐ
* Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

#### Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)
* alpaca (Vicugna pacos, a camelid of the Andes)
* alpaca (wool from the alpaca)

##### Coordinate terms

* alpaca
* camelo
* dromedário
* guanaco
* lhama / lama
* vicunha

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

alpaca f (uncountable)
* nickel silver (alloy of copper, zinc and nickel)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French alpaga, alpaca, from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /al.paˈka/
* Rhymes: -a
* Hyphenation: al‧pa‧ca

### Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacale)
* alpaca (animal)
* alpaca (wool)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Aymara allpaqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alˈpaka/ [alˈpa.ka]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -aka
* Syllabification: al‧pa‧ca

### Noun

alpaca f (plural alpacas)
* alpaca

#### Coordinate terms

* (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña

#### Derived terms

* alpaquero

#### Descendants

All borrowings ultimately from Spanish, though for some direct paths are uncertain.
* → Afrikaans: alpakka
* → Arabic: أَلْبَكَة (ʔalbaka)
* → Armenian: ալպակա (alpaka)
* → Belarusian: альпака (alʹpaka)
* → Catalan: alpaca
* → Czech: alpaka
* → Danish: alpaka
* → Dutch: alpaca
* → English: alpaca
** → Gujarati: અલ્પાકા (alpākā)
** → Thai: อัลปากา (an-bpaa-gâa)
* → French: alpaga
** → Polish: alpaga
** → Romanian: alpaca
** → Russian: альпага (alʹpaga)
*** → Armenian: ալպագա (alpaga)
* → Faroese: alpaka
* → Finnish: alpakka
* → Georgian: ალპაკა (alṗaḳa)
* → German: Alpaka
* → Greek: αλπάκα (alpáka)
* → Hungarian: alpaka
* → Irish: alpaca (possibly via English)
* → Italian: alpaca
* → Japanese: アルパカ (arupaka)
* → Korean: 알파카 (alpaka)
* → Macedonian: алпака (alpaka)
* → Norwegian: alpakka
* → Persian: آلپاکا (âlpâkâ)
* → Polish: alpaka
* → Portuguese: alpaca
* → Russian: альпака (alʹpaka)
* → Serbo-Croatian:
** Cyrillic script: алпака
** Latin script: alpaka
* → Slovene: alpaca
* → Swedish: alpacka
* → Tagalog: alpaka
* → Ukrainian: альпака (alʹpaka)

### Further reading

* “alpaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10