atajada
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ataˈxada/ [a.t̪aˈxa.ð̞a]
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: a‧ta‧ja‧da
Noun
atajada f (plural atajadas)
- (sports, Latin America) (football) a stop, (baseball) a catch
- Synonym: parada
- (Rioplatense, Andes, Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic) an ending; a termination
- (Argentina, Andes, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Dominican Republic) an interception
- (Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua) the action of taking a shortcut
Participle
atajada f sg
- feminine singular of atajado
Further reading
- “atajada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024