llorona
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ʝoˈɾona/ [ɟ͡ʝoˈɾo.na]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ʎoˈɾona/ [ʎoˈɾo.na]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃoˈɾona/ [ʃoˈɾo.na]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒoˈɾona/ [ʒoˈɾo.na]
- Rhymes: -ona
- Syllabification: llo‧ro‧na
Noun
llorona f (plural lloronas)
- (folklore) weeping woman (from the Latin American folkloric legend La Llorona)
- (informal, by extension) banshee
- female equivalent of llorón
Adjective
llorona f
- feminine singular of llorón
Further reading
- “llorón”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014