vapor

/baˈpoɾ/ · B1 · noun · m

steam

♨️🚢 Same word as English vapor; in Spanish, b and v sound alike: ba-POR

From Latin vapor (steam). In Spanish it also means a steamship, short for barco de vapor. Note the stress falls on the last syllable: va-POR, not VA-por.

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