moño
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Apparently from the a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia word *mūnn- (“bump, lump”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
moño m (plural moños)
- bun, chignon (hairstyle)
- headpad (a turban of wound cloth used for carrying loads on the head)
- (Mexico, South America) bow (of ribbon)
- Synonym: lazo
- (Argentina, El Salvador, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay) bow tie, bowtie
- Synonyms: corbata de moño; see also Thesaurus:corbatín
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: monyo
Further reading edit
- “moño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014