campiña
Spanish
Etymology
From Andalusian Arabic كَنْبِنْيَا (*kanpinyā), from Late Latin campānia, which also entered directly from Late Latin as campaña.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kamˈpiɲa/ [kãmˈpi.ɲa]
- Rhymes: -iɲa
- Syllabification: cam‧pi‧ña
Noun
campiña f (plural campiñas)
- countryside
- 2023 January 13, Laura Fernández, “‘Happy Valley’: Pelear, brillantemente, hasta el final”, in El País[1]:
- Siete años después, llega la tercera y última temporada de la serie que protagoniza Sarah Lancashire en el papel de su vida, el de una durísima y astuta sargento que patrulla una campiña inglesa nada apacible[.]
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Further reading
- “campiña”, 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