criada
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
criada f (plural criades)
- female equivalent of criat
Galician
Participle
criada
- feminine singular of criado
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /kɾiˈa.dɐ/ [kɾɪˈa.dɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾja.dɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /kɾiˈa.da/ [kɾɪˈa.da], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾja.da/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɾiˈa.dɐ/ [kɾiˈa.ðɐ], (faster pronunciation) /ˈkɾja.dɐ/ [ˈkɾja.ðɐ]
- Hyphenation: cri‧a‧da
Noun
criada f (plural criadas)
- female equivalent of criado
Participle
criada f sg
- feminine singular of criado
Spanish
Etymology
From criar (“raise”). Compare Sicilian criata.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɾjada/ [ˈkɾja.ð̞a]
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: cria‧da
Noun
criada f (plural criadas, masculine criado, masculine plural criados)
- servant, maidservant
- Synonyms: empleada doméstica, sirvienta
Derived terms
Participle
criada f sg
- feminine singular of criado
Further reading
- “criado”, 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