sierra

sierra

1. alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.

• IPA^(key): /siˈɛɹə/

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹə

sierra (countable and uncountable, plural sierras)

1. A rugged range of mountains.

   Holonym: cordillera

   Meronym: sawback

2. (international standards) alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
3. A scombroid fish.
4. (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
   • 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:

     Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.

• Sierra County
• Sierra Leone
• Sierra Nevada

• reairs, airers, 'Arries, iraser, Rieras, raiser, re-airs, arsier, arries

From Latin serra.

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. mountain-range

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “sierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• serra

From Latin serra.

sierra f (plural sierres)

1. saw (tool)

serrar

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. (geography) sierra

• “sierra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish sierra.

sierra f (invariable)

1. sierra

• arresi, arrise, riarse, riresa, serrai

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]

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• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: sie‧rra
• Homophone: (Latin America) cierra

Inherited from Latin serra.

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. saw (tool)
2. mountain range

   Sierra Madre Occidental

   Western Mother Mountain Range (part of the Sierra Madre)

3. sawfish
4. (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)

• → English: sierra

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sierra

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

• “sierra”, 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