coyol

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Nahuatl coyolli.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʝol/ [koˈʝol]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /koˈʃol/ [koˈʃol]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /koˈʒol/ [koˈʒol]

Rhymes: -ol
Syllabification: co‧yol

Noun

coyol m (plural coyoles)

(El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico) grugru palm; coyol palm; or its fruit
(colloquial, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico) testicle

Derived terms

coyol quebrado, coyol comido

Further reading

“coyol”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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