almorrana

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *haemorrheuma, from Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) + ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”). The first syllable was formed by analogy with other Spanish words borrowed from Arabic with the article اَل (al-, “the”).[1] Cognate with Galician almorrá, partly with Portuguese almorroida and almorreima, and possibly with Catalan morena.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /almoˈrana/ [al.moˈra.na]
  • Rhymes: -ana
  • Syllabification: al‧mo‧rra‧na

Noun

almorrana f (plural almorranas)

  1. (usually in the plural) hemorrhoid, haemorrhoid, piles
    Synonym: hemorroide

Descendants
  • → Cebuano: almoranas
  • → Tagalog: almoranas

References
  1. “almorrana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Further reading
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