moño
See also: mono, Mono, mönö, möñö, mono-, and -mono
Spanish
Etymology
Apparently from the a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia word *mūnn- (“bump, lump”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoɲo/ [ˈmo.ɲo]
- Rhymes: -oɲo
- Syllabification: mo‧ño
Noun
moño m (plural moños)
- bun, chignon (hairstyle)
- headpad (a turban of wound cloth used for carrying loads on the head)
- (Mexico, South America) bow (of ribbon)
- Synonym: lazo
- (Argentina, El Salvador, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Uruguay) bow tie, bowtie
- Synonyms: corbata de moño; see also Thesaurus:corbatín
Descendants
- → Catalan: monyo
Further reading
- “moño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014