mierda
English edit
Etymology edit
Directly from Spanish mierda, from Latin merda. Doublet of merde.
Noun edit
mierda (uncountable)
Usage notes edit
- Usually italicized as a foreign word.
Anagrams edit
Aragonese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin merda. See Spanish mierda, French merde.
Noun edit
mierda f (plural mierdas)
References edit
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mierda”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
mierda
Noun edit
mierda f (plural mierdes)
- shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish mierda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mierda f (plural mierdas)
- (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.)
- (vulgar) shit
- ¡Vete a la mierda!
- Go to hell!
- (literally, “Go to shit”)
- ¡Tu hombre [no] vale mierda! ("no" is optional)
- Your man isn't worth shit!
- Odio este pueblucho de mierda
- I hate this shitty little town
- (vulgar) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Derived terms edit
Interjection edit
¡mierda!
Further reading edit
- “mierda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- "mierda" at Oxford Dictionaries