emboscada
/embosˈkada/ · B2 · noun · f
ambush
🌲🏹 em-BOSC-ada: from bosque (woods), attackers hide in the trees and strike
Emboscada comes from emboscar, 'to put in the woods' (en + bosque, forest). Attackers hid among trees and struck passersby. Link bosc- to bosque (forest) and the -ada ending to a sudden action.