comadreja
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom comadre (“midwife; godmother”) + -eja (diminutive suffix), said to be after its sinuous and nimble (and therefore “feminine”) figure. Compare equivalents in other Romance languages (Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Galician doniña, Romanian nevăstuică) but not only (Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa), Danish brud, Arabic اِبْن عِرْس (ibn ʕirs)).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /komaˈdɾexa/ [ko.maˈð̞ɾe.xa]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -exa
- Syllabification: co‧ma‧dre‧ja
Noun
editcomadreja f (plural comadrejas)
- weasel (Mustela nivalis)
- Synonyms: comadreja común, comadreja menor
- weasel, marten (a mammal of the genus Mustela)
- weasel (mammal unrelated to the genus Mustela)
- Hyponym: comadreja rayada africana (“African striped weasel”)
- (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) opossum, possum (especially the white-eared opossum Didelphis Albiventris)
- Synonyms: zarigüeya, comadreja overa
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “comadreja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- comadreja on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
Categories:
- Spanish terms suffixed with -ejo
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/exa
- Rhymes:Spanish/exa/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Argentinian Spanish
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- Uruguayan Spanish
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