urraca
See also: Urraca
Galician
Alternative forms
- pera orraca, pera urraca
Etymology
Attested since circa 1750. From the older peras de Dona Urraca, "Lady Urraca's pears", from the feminine personal name Urraca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [uˈrakɐ]
Noun
urraca f (plural urracas)
- a local and very appreciated variety of bittersweet pear
References
- “peras” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “urraca” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “urraca” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pera urraca” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈʁa.kɐ/ [uˈha.kɐ]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /uˈʁa.kɐ/ [uˈχa.kɐ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈʁa.ka/ [uˈha.ka]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /uˈʁa.kɐ/
- Homophone: Urraca
- Hyphenation: ur‧ra‧ca
Noun
urraca f (plural urracas)
- magpie
- Synonym: pega
Spanish
Etymology
Of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈraka/ [uˈra.ka]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -aka
- Syllabification: u‧rra‧ca
Noun
urraca f (plural urracas)
- magpie (also called: common magpie, European magpie, Eurasian magpie) (Pica pica)
- Synonyms: marica, pega, picaraza, picaza, urraca común
Derived terms
- urraca de América
See also
- rabilargo
Further reading
- “urraca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014