ballena
Aragonese
Etymology
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Noun
ballena f (plural ballenas)
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “ballena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Noun
ballena f (plural ballenes)
Chavacano
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baˈʎena/, [baˈʎe.na]
- Hyphenation: ba‧lle‧na
Noun
ballena
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbaː.ɫɛ.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbaː.le.na]
Noun
bālena f (genitive bālenae); first declension
- alternative form of ballaena
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): /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na] (most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /baˈʎena/ [baˈʎe.na] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /baˈʃena/ [baˈʃe.na] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /baˈʒena/ [baˈʒe.na] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -ena
- Syllabification: ba‧lle‧na
Noun
ballena f (plural ballenas)
- whale
- baleen, whalebone
- Synonym: barbas de ballena
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
Descendants
Further reading
- “ballena”, 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