hebra
English
Etymology
Blend of horse + zebra.
Noun
hebra (plural hebras)
- The offspring of a cross between a horse sire and a zebra dam.
Anagrams
- Baehr, Behar, Haber, Rehab., rehab
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin fibra. Compare the borrowed doublet fibra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈebɾa/ [ˈe.β̞ɾa]
- Rhymes: -ebɾa
- Syllabification: he‧bra
Noun
hebra f (plural hebras)
- thread, strand, filament
- Synonyms: hilo, filamento
- fiber (a single elongated piece of a given material)
- Synonym: fibra
Derived terms
- deshebrar
- enhebrar
- hebroso
- pegar la hebra
Descendants
- → Tagalog: hibla
Further reading
- “hebra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014