yegua

• yeugua

From Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Compare Catalan euga, Spanish yegua, Galician egua, Portuguese égua, Romanian iapă.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʝeɡwa/
• Syllabification: ye‧gua
• Rhymes: -eɡwa

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. mare

• “yegua”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “yegua”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• egua (Lagarteiru, Mañegu)

Borrowed from Spanish yegua, from Latin equa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjeɡwa/
• Rhymes: -eɡwa
• Syllabification: ye‧gua

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. (Mañegu, Valverdeñu) mare

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Latin equa, from equus + -a.

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. mare (female horse)

Inherited from Old Spanish yegua, from Latin equa, feminine form of equus (“horse”).

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• Rhymes: -eɡwa
• Syllabification: ye‧gua

yegua f (plural yeguas, masculine caballo, masculine plural caballos)

1. mare (female horse)
2. heifer (female cow)
3. (Cuba, Uruguay, derogatory, colloquial) contemptible woman
4. (Guatemala, Honduras) cigarette butt, fag
5. the letter Y in the Spanish spelling alphabet

• “yegua”, 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
• “yegua”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010