piña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pina"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish piña.

Noun

piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)

  1. cloth woven from pineapple fiber
  2. (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
  3. (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.

Translations

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈpiɲɐ]

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

  1. pinecone
  2. pineapple
  3. bunch (of grapes)
    Synonyms: acio, cacho

Derived terms

References

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɲa
  • Syllabification: pi‧ña

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

  1. (botany) pinecone
    Synonyms: estróbilo, cono
  2. (fruit) pineapple
    Synonyms: ananá (Argentina, Uruguay), ananás
  3. (Canary Islands, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba, Uruguay) punch (blow with the fist)
    Synonym: puñetazo
  4. (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
  5. (figurative) close-knit group
    • 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):
      […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  6. the core of the agave plant
  7. (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → English: piña
  • → Bikol Central: pinya
  • → Cebuano: pinya
  • → Hiligaynon: pinya
  • → Tagalog: pinya

Further reading
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