acuchillamiento
Spanish
Etymology
From acuchillar + -miento.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /akut͡ʃiʝaˈmjento/ [a.ku.t͡ʃi.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /akut͡ʃiʎaˈmjento/ [a.ku.t͡ʃi.ʎaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /akut͡ʃiʃaˈmjento/ [a.ku.t͡ʃi.ʃaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /akut͡ʃiʒaˈmjento/ [a.ku.t͡ʃi.ʒaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
- Rhymes: -ento
- Syllabification: a‧cu‧chi‧lla‧mien‧to
Noun
acuchillamiento m (plural acuchillamientos)
- knifing, stab
- 2015 October 11, “Mueren una mujer y su hija en un bombardeo israelí sobre Gaza”, in El País:
- Tras la oleada de acuchillamientos de israelíes y de enfrentamientos mortales de jóvenes manifestantes palestinos contra las fuerzas de seguridad, la tensión sigue aumentado en Israel y Palestina.
- After the wave of knifings of Israelis and deadly confrontations of young Palestinian protesters against security forces, tension continues to rise in Israel and Palestine.
Further reading
- “acuchillamiento”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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