almorrana

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *haemorrheuma, from Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) + ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”). The first syllable was formed by analogy with other Spanish words borrowed from Arabic with the article اَل (al-, “the”). Cognate with Galician almorrá, partly with Portuguese almorroida and almorreima, and possibly with Catalan morena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /almoˈrana/ [al.moˈra.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: al‧mo‧rra‧na

Noun

almorrana f (plural almorranas)

1. (usually in the plural) hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles

   Synonym: hemorroide

Descendants

• → Cebuano: almoranas
• → Tagalog: almoranas

Further reading

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