chajá

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈxa/ [t͡ʃaˈxa]

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: cha‧já

chajá m (plural chajás)

1. a crested screamer
2. a Uruguayan cake that includes merengue, fruit, and cream
   • 2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 4, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 60:

     Todo me daba hambre, los chivitos especiales, el chajá de postre.

     All of it made me hungry, the special chivitos, the chajá for dessert.

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