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noun, feminine

zalea

/θaˈlea/

noun, feminine/θaˈlea/plural: zaleas

sheepskin

Borrowed from Arabic. Coromines and Pascual say it is a borrowing of a "vulgar" (or spoken) Arabic term سَليخَة (salīḵa). First attested in the early 17th century in Don Quixote.