cremallera

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère. Doublet of clemàstecs (“trammel”).

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleres)

Noun

cremallera m (plural cremalleres)

(rail transport) ellipsis of tren cremallera; rack railway

Further reading

“cremallera”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
“cremallera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
“cremallera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“cremallera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɾemaˈʝeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʝe.ɾa] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /kɾemaˈʎeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʎe.ɾa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kɾemaˈʃeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʃe.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kɾemaˈʒeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʒe.ɾa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -eɾa
Syllabification: cre‧ma‧lle‧ra

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleras)

zip fastener; zipper
Synonym: cierre
(mechanical engineering) rack

Interjection

cremallera

zip it, shush

Further reading

“cremallera”, 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
Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “cremallera”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]