guinda

Borrowed from Spanish guinda.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡin.də]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡin.da]

guinda f (plural guindes)

1. sour cherry (fruit of Prunus cerasus)

• guinder

• “guinda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “guinda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīksĭna (“type of cherry”), from *wiks (“mistletoe”). Compare French guigne, Italian visciola, Old Occitan guindola.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡindɐ]

guinda f (plural guindas)

1. sour cherry (fruit of Prunus cerasus)

• guindeira
• Guindeiras
• Guindeiro

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “guinda”, 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), “guinda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “guinda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

guinda

1. inflection of guindar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Rhymes: -ĩdɐ
• Hyphenation: guin‧da

Back-formation from guindar.

guinda f (plural guindas)

1. hoisting rope
2. (nautical) height of mast above deck

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

guinda

1. inflection of guindar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “guinda”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “guinda”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡinda/ [ˈɡĩn̪.d̪a]
• Rhymes: -inda
• Syllabification: guin‧da

Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wīhsilō (“type of cherry”), from *wīhs- (“mistletoe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wīsos, *wiHsos. Compare French guigne, Italian visciola, Old Occitan guindola.

guinda f (plural guindas)

1. sour cherry (fruit of Prunus cerasus)

   la guinda del pastel ― the icing on the cake

2. (colloquial, El Salvador) a quick escape by running

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

guinda

1. inflection of guindar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “guinda”, 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
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