araña

araña

See also: arana, aranã, and arañá

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin arānea. Compar roña.

Noun

araña f (plural arañes)

1. spider

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Galician

Araña

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.

Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa̝/

Noun

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider
   • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327:

     a vida deste mundo non he mays que a tea da aranna que tanto que a tange alguna coussa, logo he quebrantada

     the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it

2. (figurative) a slow worker

Derived terms

• arañeira
• tea de araña

References

• “aranna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “aranna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “araña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “araña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “araña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
• “araña” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish araña and Portuguese aranha and Kabuverdianu aranha .

Noun

araña

1. spider

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa/ [aˈɾa.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧ña

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish aranna, from Latin arānea (compare French araignée, Catalan aranya, Portuguese aranha), from arāneus (“spider”). Probably a doublet of roña.

Noun

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider

   Hypernym: arácnido

Derived terms

• araña de luces
• araña de mar
• araña patona
• araña saltarina
• arañero
• arañita
• lámpara de araña
• mono araña
• tela de araña
• telaraña

 

Related terms

• arácnido
• musaraña

See also

• arañar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

araña

1. inflection of arañar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “araña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014