coyol

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Nahuatl coyolli.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /koˈʝol/ [koˈʝol]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝol/ [koˈʝol]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃol/ [koˈʃol]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒol/ [koˈʒol]

• Rhymes: -ol
• Syllabification: co‧yol

Noun

coyol m (plural coyoles)

1. (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico) grugru palm; coyol palm; or its fruit
2. (colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico) testicle

Derived terms

• coyol quebrado, coyol comido

 

Further reading

• “coyol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014