piña
See also: pina, Pina, pína, and Piña
English
Etymology
Spanish piña
Noun
piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)
- cloth woven from pineapple fiber
- (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
- (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.
Translations
cloth
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Anagrams
- APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pian
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpiɲɐ]
Noun
piña f (plural piñas)
- pinecone
- pineapple
- bunch (of grapes)
- Synonyms: acio, cacho
Derived terms
- piñeiro
References
- “piña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “piña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “piña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Una piña de pino (a pinecone).
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Una piña tropical (a pineapple).
Etymology
From Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -iɲa
- Syllabification: pi‧ña
Noun
piña f (plural piñas)
- (botany) pinecone
- Synonyms: estróbilo, cono
- (fruit) pineapple
- Synonym: ananás
- (Canary Islands, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba, Uruguay) punch (blow with the fist)
- Synonym: puñetazo
- (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
- (figurative) close-knit group
- 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE:
- […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña
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- the core of the agave plant
Derived terms
- apiñar
- piña colada
- piñal
- piñata
- piñazo
- piñón
Related terms
- pino
Descendants
- → English: piña
- → Hiligaynon: pinya
- → Tagalog: pinya
Further reading
- “piña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es