guagua
See also: Guagua
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Onomatopoetic of the sound made by the wheel suspension of the bus. (The public transport buses in the Canary Islands were not very modern in the early years.) The Royal Spanish Academy considers this etymology debatable.
Noun edit
guagua f (plural guaguas)
- a trivial thing
- (Caribbean, Canary Islands) bus (with a fixed route)
- (Cuba, Dominican Republic) hemipter
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Quechua wawa (“infant, child”).
Noun edit
guagua f (plural guaguas)
- (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) baby, infant
- Synonym: bebé
- (Peru) a type of sweet bread shaped like a baby
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “guagua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014