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ánfora.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
ánfora.
Principal English Translation: 

large plastic jug for transporting water

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nopa nochipa quizaca atl pan ome amforah (Sullivan et al. 2016: 23). =My father always carries water (from the well) in two jugs. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 78.

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