cocaína
/kokaˈina/ · B1 · noun · f
cocaine
🌿 coca + -ína = cocaine, the drug made from the coca leaf
Coca comes from the Quechua word kuka, the name of the Andean plant. The ending -ína is the Spanish version of English -ine, the ending used for plant compounds like cafeína (caffeine) and nicotina (nicotine). Stress the í: co-ca-Í-na.