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araña

See also: arana, aranã, and arañá

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin arānea. Compar roña.

Noun edit

araña f (plural arañes)

  1. spider

Galician edit

 
Araña

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.

Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

araña f (plural arañas)

  1. spider
    • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327:
      a vida deste mundo non he mays que a tea da aranna que tanto que a tange alguna coussa, logo he quebrantada
      the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it
  2. (figurative) a slow worker

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “aranna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “aranna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “araña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “araña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “araña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • “araña” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Papiamentu edit

Etymology edit

From Spanish araña and Portuguese aranha and Kabuverdianu aranha .

Noun edit

araña

  1. spider

Spanish edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /aˈɾaɲa/ [aˈɾa.ɲa]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɲa
  • Syllabification: a‧ra‧ña

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Old Spanish aranna, from Latin arānea (compare French araignée, Catalan aranya, Portuguese aranha), from arāneus (“spider”). Probably a doublet of roña.

Noun edit

araña f (plural arañas)

  1. spider
    Hypernym: arácnido
Derived terms edit
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Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

araña

  1. inflection of arañar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading edit

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