sierra
See also: Sierra
Translingual edit
Noun edit
sierra
- Alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra, "saw," referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sierra (countable and uncountable, plural sierras)
- A rugged range of mountains.
- Meronym: sawback
- Holonym: cordillera
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:
- Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.
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Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sierra f (plural sierras)
References edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “sierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sierra f (plural sierres)
- saw (tool)
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French edit
Noun edit
sierra f (plural sierras)
Further reading edit
- “sierra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
sierra f (invariable)
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -era
- Syllabification: sie‧rra
- Homophone: (Latin America) cierra
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
sierra f (plural sierras)
- saw (tool)
- mountain range
- Sierra Madre Occidental
- Western Mother Mountain Range
- sawfish
- (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)
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Descendants edit
- → English: sierra
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sierra
- inflection of serrar:
Further reading edit
- “sierra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014