ballena
Aragonese
Etymology
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “ballena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, ISBN 978-84-7753-949-0
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish ballena, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).
Pronunciation
- (Castilian) IPA(key): /baˈʎena/
- (Latin America) IPA(key): /baˈɟ͡ʝena/, [baˈʝena]
Synonyms
- (baleen): barbas de ballena
Hypernyms
- (whale): cetáceo
Derived terms
- ballena asesina
- ballena azul
- ballena de Groenlandia
- ballena franca
- ballena gris
- ballena jorobada
- ballenato
- ballenero
- barbas de ballena
- esperma de ballena
- llena como una ballena
- tiburón ballena
Further reading
- “ballena” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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