castaña

From Latin castanea.

castaña f (plural castañes)

1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

• castañal
• castañéu
• castañu

• castanha (Reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa̝/

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
   • 1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Ediciós do Castro, page 148:

     seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre

     six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones

castaña f sg

1. feminine singular of castaño

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castaña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castaña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Spanish castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ña

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)

   Synonyms: torta, trastazo

3. bun, chignon (haircut)
4. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

5. (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
6. (colloquial) piece of junk
7. (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)

   Synonym: año

   Tiene 40 castañas

   He's 40 (years old)

• ⇒ Spanish: castañeta
  • → Czech: kastaněty
  • → English: castanet
  • → Estonian: kastanjett
  • → French: castagnette
    • → Dutch: castagnet
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kastanjett
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kastanjett
  • → Finnish: kastanjetti
  • → Hungarian: kasztanyetta
  • → Irish: castainéid
  • → Italian: castagnetta
  • → Japanese: カスタネット
  • → Macedonian: кастане́ти (kastanéti)
  • → Polish: kastaniety
  • → Romanian: castanietă
  • → Russian: кастаньета (kastanʹjeta)
• → Cebuano: kastanyas (from the plural)
• → Tagalog: kastanyas (from the plural)

castaña

1. feminine singular of castaño

• “castaño”, 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