aceña
See also: acena
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic السَّانِيَة (as-sāniya, “water scoop, water wheel”), via Andalusian Arabic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /aˈθeɲa/ [aˈθe.ɲa]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /aˈseɲa/ [aˈse.ɲa]
- Rhymes: -eɲa
- Syllabification: a‧ce‧ña
Noun
aceña f (plural aceñas)
- water mill; flour mill
- Synonym: molino
- water wheel
- Synonym: azud
- (botany) bulrush, cattail (Typha latifolia)
- Synonyms: espadaña, gladio
Further reading
aceña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es- “aceña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014