ballena
Aragonese
Etymology
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References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “ballena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish ballena, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from Ancient Greek φάλλαινα (phállaina).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baˈʎena/ [baˈʎe.na]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈʃena/ [baˈʃe.na]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈʒena/ [baˈʒe.na]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ba‧lle‧na
Hypernyms
- (whale): cetáceo
Derived terms
- ballena asesina
- ballena azul
- ballena de aletas
- ballena de Groenlandia
- ballena franca
- ballena gris
- ballena jorobada
- ballena picuda
- ballenato
- ballenero
- barbas de ballena
- esperma de ballena
- llena como una ballena
- tiburón ballena
Further reading
- “ballena”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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