araña

From Latin arānea. Compar roña.

araña f (plural arañes)

1. spider

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.

Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa̝/

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider
   • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327:

     a vida deste mundo non he mays que a tea da aranna que tanto que a tange alguna coussa, logo he quebrantada

     the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it

2. (figuratively) a slow worker

• arañeira
• tea de araña

• “aranna” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “aranna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “araña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “araña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “araña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Spanish araña and Portuguese aranha and Kabuverdianu aranha .

araña

1. spider

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa/

From Latin arānea (compare French araignée, Catalan aranya, Portuguese aranha), from arāneus (“spider”). Probably a doublet of roña.

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider

• araña de luces
• telaraña

• musaraña

• arácnido

See the etymology of the main entry.

araña

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of arañar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of arañar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of arañar.

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