Wiktionary:Requested articles:Spanish

Definitions from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Have an article request? Add it to the list. - But please:

• Think twice before adding long lists of words as they may be ignored.
• If possible provide context, usage, field of relevance, etc.

Please remove articles from this list once they have been written (i.e., the link is “live”, shown in blue)

There are a few things you can do to help:

• Add glosses or brief definitions.
• Add the part of speech, preferly using a standarized template.
• Please indicate the gender(s).
• If you see inflected forms (plurals, past tenses, superlatives, etc) indicate the base form (singular, infinitive, absolute, etc) of the requested term and the type of inflection used in the request.
• Don’t delete words just because you don’t know them — it may be that they are used only in certain contexts or are archaic or obsolete.
• Don’t simply replace words with what you believe is the correct form. The form here may be rare or regional. Instead add the standard form and comment that the requested form seems to be an error in your experience.

Requested articles pages for other languages: Category:Requested articles by language.

Contents: Top - A B C Ch D E F G H I J K L Ll M N Ñ O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] Non-letter

[edit] A

abrasilerado a -- Brazilian-like acalifa -- some type of plant aciago -- fateful acristalado -- glass-covered acurrucar -- to curl up; to huddle; most often in the reflexive: acurrucarse -adura -- ver of -dura afanarse -- to toil afane -- theft; figuratively, a steal; noun form of afanar agauchado -- gaucho-like agazapo -- present of agazapar agotadora a -- tiring, f. agua regia -- aqua regia ajado a -- frayed ají criollo -- a type of hot chile ají pico de loro, ají piciloro - a type of hot chile - seen in Panama ajinomoto -- monosodium glutamate; from Japanese alborotado — excited; in disarray alcaldesa --- female mayor, mayoress; wife of mayor aletargado -- lethargic (NOT in babelfish) alféjizar -- syn of alféizar (obsolete) alhucema (agua de ~) -- lavender blossom alimaña -- vermin (figurative) aliñado -- seasoned; well-groomed. almádenas -- long-handled mace used for breaking up stones almendrado a -- almond-shaped; a dessert of vanilla icecream covered in cracked almonds almohadilla -- a name for (#); little cushion or pillow (almohada); inkpad almojábana -- beignet alocadamente -- wildly alusivo -- allusive amañado -- fixed, tricked, jury-rigged; handy, skillfull amarillento a -- yellowish amenazante a -- threatening amol m. -- (Sapindus saponaria) Wingleaf soapberry amole m. -- (Sapindus saponaria) Wingleaf soapberry amontonadero m. -- not in babelfish or RAE. very dialectal! but which dialect?. c.f. amontonar (to pile up), from montón (heap or pile of stuff) amortajada – shrouded anafórico -- from anáfora (Anaphore) anafrito anarcosindicalista -- in RAE. anarcho-syndicalist anisado -- anise anteojos de sol -- sunglasses antiinmigrante -- neologism from anti- and inmigrante. NOT in RAE. NOT in babelfish. believe I saw it in a newspaper antillano -- inhabitant of Antillas añico -- in plural: shard añorar — miss (syn: extrañar) apacible -- calmed, quiet, comfortable, nice apaciguarse — calm down apaciguar — appease

apático -- apathetic apelmazado -- lumpy apelontonado a -- apelotonado is correct. this is probably Hippietrail's transcription error but still needs to be checked in case it's a variant aperos -- riding gear. NOT in babelfish apogeo -- apogee aposento m. -- room; lodging, an old-fashioned word apresto -- preparation apretadita -- food or snack in Costa Rica, from apretado, apretar archivador -- filing cabinet arcón -- chest, coffer aristotélico a -- Aristotelean arma de cacería -- hunting weapon arrabal m. -- neighbourhood, specially peripheral and poor arracache -- a fruit or vegetable in Costa Rica arraigo -- root (only metaphorically; cf: raíz) arranque -- starting arrasa -- devastate arrodillarse -- kneel down armero -- weaponsmith; weapon cabinet asadero -- apparently a type of cheese. asaltante -- burglar; from asaltar asceta -- ascetic aserradero -- sawmill. in RAE. in babelfish así y todo -- in RAE, even so (many senses) asnejón -- not in babelfish, VERY dialectal form ascórbico -- ascorbic NOT in RAE astucia f. -- slyness -ata atadura -- binding atanor m. -- alembic. NOT in babelfish, in RAE. atarjeas f. -- in RAE aterciopelado a -- in RAE, made of terciopelo; velvety aterido -- freezing cold -ato atolondrado -- confused atónito -- confused, dumbstruck atosigar -- same as agobiar. to harass. in RAE. in babelfish. atrabiliario -- choleric atrapanovios -- seen on magazine cover in Panama; lit. "boyfriend-catcher", could be like "gold-digger". It's a neologism. Also: In Oaxaca, Mexico this is how street vendors called a w:Chinese finger trap; google reveals this. atrayentes -- plural, attracting, attractive atuendos -- clothing (in RAE) augila -- águila or anguila? auscultar -- auscultate autóctona, autóctono autolote -- car yard (Mexico) aventón -- lift, ride (Mexico) ayahuasquera en ayunas -- fasting (to be fasting, "estar en ayunas") -azgo -- -ship, c.f. hermanazgo 'fellowship', almirantazgo 'admiralship'. aztequismo - from azteca

[edit] B

babilónico a -- Babylonian bacinilla f. -- chamber pot; bassin baho (Nicaragua) -- a stew made from beef and yucca bajetón -- augmentative of bajo, "short" (Andean); not in DRAE balboa (needs Spanish) m. -- Currency unit of Panama baldear -- to wash somthing by throwing bucketfuls of water (Paraguay) bajeza f. -- meanness baladí a -- trivial balazo -- gunshot en balde -- in RAE, useless baleada -- NOT in RAE. sited at La Mesilla, Guatemala and throughout Honduras - snack made from beans, sour cream, and cheese, sometimes with chirmol / chismol in a Mexican-style flour tortilla. A version with egg is called a bolibaleada or boli baleada in the west, in the east egg is a standard ingredient. ballena jorobada -- humpback whale balneario m. -- beach; spa; resort balsero -- somebody who arrives on a balsa, a boat person bamba -- flip-flop, thong (aus); sneakers (Spain) bambalina -- border (of a theater); drop curtain; entre bambalinas: behind the scenes bando m. (needs Spanish) -- side, faction; official proclaim bandolero -- brigand bangaña -- gourd baqueano -- tracker (one who tracks) barajado a -- (needs adjective sense) shuffled barbería -- (Guatemala) barber shop. c.f. peluquería? The two terms seem to coexist in most countries where a barbería is for men and a peluquería is for everybody, except I've never seen a barbería in any part of Mexico. barbilla f. — chin barcito -- diminutive form of bar barnizar -- to varnish barquilla -- cone barquillo -- ice cream cone barracón -- augmentative of barraca, "barrack" barrida f. -- sweeping barrido a -- (needs adjective sense) swept barrocanrolera -- NOT in RAE. invented blend of other words basquiña f. -- old-fashioned smock traditionally worn by women in the Northern part of Spain batata (needs Spanish) -- (syn: camote, see also: ñame) batido -- smoothie, milkshake (syns: licuado, malteada) baúl m. — trunk; trunk / boot (of a car) bejuco -- vine bélico -- war-related bemol -- flat (in music notation); figuratively, a hurdle; in plural, figuratively, bravery benzoato (needs Spanish) -- benzoate bergsoniano -- NOT in RAE. eponym. adjective from Bergson, the author berrinchudo -- moody (dialectal, from berrinche) berro -- watercress berro chino -- Chinese cabbage bicoca -- bargain bienamada a f. -- beloved bienaventuranza f. -- beatitude bienhechor m. -- benefactor bilis f. -- bile biñuelo m. -- (Panama) a deep fried snack of yucca with some meat inside. (syns: carimañola, enyucada) (se also: buñuelo). NOT in RAE, full of yuca "biñuelo" is the correct spelling for the Panamanian food: [1]. This is clearly a misspelling; check Google for biñuelo and you'll find less than 200 hits, which would be completely unexpected for a staple food item. Not a misspelling at all. A thorough Google search (binuelo OR biñuelo OR binuelos OR biñuelos) gets 1,060 hits. Even Google Books gets 118 hits when you include the variants, some of which are very interesting. biñuelo is cleary a rarer variant of buñuelo that goes back at least a couple of centuries in parts of Spain as well as in parts of Latin America. I have travelled in both Mexico and Panama and the biñuelos I saw in Panama looked nothing remotely like the buñuelos I saw in Mexico.

biocombustible -- ecofuel (NOT in RAE. NOT in babelfish) bisturí m. -- scalpel blockera, blokera -- NOT in RAE, place selling cement blocks in guatemala bobalina —Parto del principio de que la reflexión debe preceder a la acción, bobalina. — Julio Cortázar, Rayuela, chapter 3, 1977 Había algo de conmovedor en esa cara de muñeca rellena de estopa, de tortuga de pana, de inmensa bobalina metida en un mundo rancio con teteras desportilladas, ... — Julio Cortázar, Rayuela, chapter 23, 1977 bocapierna f. -- cuff of the trousers (NOT in RAE) bochinchero -- noisy bochornoso -- shameful; (of weather) excessively hot and stuffy bofe -- lung (specially if used for animal fodder) bóiler -- boiler, used by Carlos Fuentes boletero -- ticket seller bolibaleada or boli baleada -- NOT in RAE. Western Honduras, a baleada with egg. see also boli bolillito m. -- a small bolillo bread roll in Mexico bolillo m. -- bobbin; a type of bread roll in Mexico bolita -- meatball (syn: albóndiga); marble (toy) bomb a? (80s Chilean slang?) bombo -- large wooden drum from the Andes borla -- tassel borojó -- (Borojoa patinoi) A tropical tree and its edible fruit (NOT in RAE) borrachazo -- an extremely drunk person; the state of extreme inebriation borrachera -- drunkenness borrachín -- familiar diminutive of borracho boruca f. -- raucous noise (in RAE) bostezo m. -- yawn botellazo -- hit with a bottle botiquín m. -- medicine cabinet botonadura -- set of buttons braga -- woman's slip (syn: bombacha) braguetas pl. — fly / flies (UK) (of trousers etc) bramido m. -- braying brecha n -- divide (specially "digital divide"); breach breña -- wilderness brete -- difficult situation brial m. -- old-fashioned women's dress bribón m. -- rascal brioch -- brioche brioso (needs Spanish) -- vigorous brote m. -- (needs noun sense) the noun of brotar; sprout brozal m. -- bush bruces -- knees (archaic); in RAE (de bruces: on one's knees) budín -- pudding bucle m. -- curl; iteration buena estrella – lucky star buhardilla-- attic buhonero -- street vendor bulín -- bachelor's flat; by extension, brothel (Buenos Aires slang) a bulto — roughly buñuelo m. -- beignet (in RAE) burgués m. -- bourgeois burlón a -- mocking burlona a, f. -- mocking butifarra -- a kind of sausage butírica -- butyric f.

[edit] C

caballada f. -- many horses of one owner. herd. NOT in babelfish. caballeriza f. -- stable cabestrillo -- sling cabestro -- halter; headcollar cabrilleo -- NOT in babelfish cacareo m. -- cackling cacería f. -- hunting. in RAE. in babelfish cachar v -- to catch (Mexico, Central America, Caribbean); to get or understand something (Chile) cachete m. -- in RAE. cheek; smack cacicazgo m -- chieftainship cadejo -- ball of yarn; an imaginary animal that comes out at night (Central America) cafetalera: coffee pot cafetín m. -- in RAE, coffee shop cafiche -- pimp (also: cafisho, caficho) cafre a -- tacky, corny (Spain) caftán m. -- kaftan calientabraguetas f. -- cock tease calientahuevos f. -- cock tease calientapiernas f. -- cock tease calientapiés m. -- cock tease calientapija f. -- cock tease calientaplatos m. -- dish-heater calientapollas f. -- cock tease cainita a -- Cainite (in RAE) calala -- passionfruit (syn: maracuyá) calañés m. calcomanía -- sticker (see also: etiqueta) caliche -- salitre, saltpeter cáliga f. -- in RAE, (Roman) sandal calina f. -- haze callecita -- small street callejonear -- NOT in RAE. dialectal form: going around streets callo (needs Spanish) -- tripe (Spain); callus cambur -- plantain, banana camellón -- ridge camote -- sweet potato (syn: batata, see also: ñame) campal a -- pitched campante -- too calm for the past action comitted campechano -- frank; related to Campeche campeón -- champion; war hero campestre -- rustic canchón -- augmentative of cancha canilla -- shin; tap (Argentina, Uruguay) cáñamo -- in RAE, hemp cañonazo -- cannon shot cañoneó -- past form of cañonear capanga -- boss (Argentine slang) carambola f. -- (Costa Rica) star fruit, carambola (syn: fruta china). in RAE; three-cushion shot (in billiards or snooker) caraota carbonatado a -- carbonated carbunco -- carbuncle; anthrax carcomido -- decayed; dry rotten (see also: podrido) carencia f. -- in RAE, lack carey -- Hawksbill turtle; tortoiseshell carimañola f. -- (Panama) a deep fried snack of yucca with some meat inside. (syns: biñuelo, enyucada). NOT in RAE carnal -- carnal; kin; slang term of address in Mexico. dude? man? carnoso a -- fleshy, meaty carpa f. -- (missing sense) tent (cf tienda) carpintero m. -- carpinter; woodpecker carrete -- reel carretela -- a type of coach carrizo m. -- (Panama) drinking straw carroña -- carrion cartapacio -- folder cas m. (needs Spanish) -- (Costa Rica) A type of tree and its fruit, Psidium freidrichsthalianum casa cural -- in RAE casa de pes casado -- (Costa Rica) a meal served for lunch or dinner based on rice and beans (separate, not gallo pinto), with a meat or eggs and extras such as plaintain, picadillo, and salad (see also: pinto). Also seen in one restaurant in Nicaragua. Normal sense: married cascabeleo -- rattling cascamiento m. -- in RAE, noun of cascar cascarón m. -- eggshell caserío -- hamlet, village casero (missing sense) -- housekeeper; homely; also a noun used to refer to some type of food in Nicaragua caserón m. -- big house caspa -- dandruff castaño m. -- chestnut (both colour and tree) castrense a -- military. in RAE. in babelfish catear -- to flunk (Spain) catedrático m. -- university Chair catire -- {{italbrac|Venezuela, Caribbean) blond catre m. -- folding bed caudillaje caudillismo caudillo (needs Spanish) -- leader cavilé -- past tense, first person singular, of cavilar (to meditate) cebar -- to fatten cebollana -- spring onion (see also: cebolleta, cebollina, cebollita, cebollino) cebollina -- see cebollana ceibeño m. -- somebody from La Ceiba, Honduras centésimo (needs Spanish) -- coin equal to 1/100th of a balboa in Panama - possibly of other Latin American currencies. cent. (see also: centavo). It's the partitive too, not only coins centolla -- King crab or European spider crab centones (needs Spanish) cerrazón f. -- overcast sky cervalmente cérvix -- cervix. NOT in RAE. in babelfish. (alt spelling: cerviz) -ceta -- diminutive suffix -cete -- diminutive suffix cetrino -- sallow cevichería f. -- place selling ceviche ciclovía cicuta (needs Spanish) -- hemlock cielorraso m. -- ceiling ciénaga f. -- bog, marsh, swamp cifa -- NOT in RAE. very dialectal form of ...? -cilla -- diminutive suffix -cillo -- diminutive suffix cimbrantes -- probably a transcription error for cimbreantes cimiento m. -- foundation. in babelfish cineasta m. -- film maker, movie maker; director cinto m. -- belt (archaic, except in Argentina & Chile) (see also: cinta, faja) ciñe -- form of ceñir círculo vicioso -- vicious circle circunciso – NOT in babelfish. circumcised

cirio m. -- wax candle cirquero -- in RAE, relative to circo; clownish -cita -- diminutive suffix -cito -- diminutive suffix cítrico -- citric clarín -- clarion claveteado -- nailed, studded clavetear -- in RAE verb. to nail, to nail together clientela f. -- clientele clueca a -- broody coartar vt -- to constrain (in RAE) cobertizo -- shed (building) coctelería -- cocktail shop or stall cochinita -- roast pig (see also pibil) cocktelería -- NOT in RAE, seen twice in Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. Plenty of Google hits. a shop/stall that sells (seafood) cocktails. cocomal or cocomalt -- a drink in Costa Rica cocotero m. -- coconut tree codito -- elbow macaroni - seen in Panama City cofia f. -- bonnet cofre -- chest, trunk (box); bonnet, hood (of a car) cojo -- lame coleccionar -- to collect coletazo m. -- hit with the tail of an animal coletilla -- in RAE, final part of a sentence, derogative colmada -- overwhelmed colmillo m. -- fang, tusk colmo m. (needs Spanish) -- extreme colorante -- colouring agent colorín m. -- redhead, sometimes blonde comadre -- in RAE comensal m. -- commensal comentarista -- commentator comezón f. -- itch comiteco -- person from Comitán, Chiapas, Mexico cómodo -- comfortable compadecerse — pity (verb) complot m. -- conspiracy, plot (needs Spanish) in RAE comprobación f. -- verification. in babelfish concentrado a -- concentrated; m. concentrate conchudo -- asshole (dialectal, Argentina); sly (archaic) concubinarios – NOT in babelfish. from concubina, concubine concuñado m. a -- a kinsperson by secondary affinity: the spouse of a sibling of one's spouse, or the sibling of the spouse of one's sibling condimento -- condiment, spice condor (noun) (blue link because of other languages) confite -- lolly, sweet, candy confitería -- sweet shop confortable -- comfortable confusión -- confusion cono -- cone consabido -- usual consigna -- slogan contante -- cash (usually said in the sentence: contante y sonante) contestar -- answer contienda f. -- fight; dispute contrabandista m. -- smuggler contrasentido -- oxymoron; nonsense contubernio -- conspiracy conchudo -- smart, sly (archaic); motherfucker (Argentine slang) convoyes -- plural of convoy copaneco -- from Copán, Honduras copete m. -- in RAE, crest (bird anatomy); lead (in a newspaper article; Argentina and Uruguay) copinol -- (Hymenaea courbaril) jatobá, Brazilian cherry corbeta -- corvette (ship) corpachón -- hunk correaje m. -- comes from correa correazo m. -- hit with a correa corregidor -- a kind of politician, specially in the Americas correspondencia f. -- correspondence; railway or metro connection (in RAE) corretiza cortaplumas m. -- cutter, penknife corvina -- brown meagre (Sciaena umbra) and other Sciaenidae coscorrón m. -- in RAE, rapping cosmetología n -- cosmetology cosmovisión -- world-view cosquilleo -- tickling costarriqueñismo -- a regionalism of Costa Rica costosa f. -- costly costumbrismo -- literary style focusing on local customs and traditions (in RAE) cotilleo m. -- gossip. see also: chisme creó -- 3rd person singular past of crear: "he created" creso -- tycoon crespo — a curly; m. curl cretense -- Cretan criadero m. -- animal farm cristina -- proper noun, with capital letter, also supporters of queen Cristina crotaloteo m. cuánto -- how much cuartilla f. — sheet of paper cuara (missing sense, or subsense) -- (Panama) A word for a 25-cent coin. From the English word quarter. (syn: cora in El Salvador). sense NOT in RAE cubista -- cubist cucaña f. -- greased pole cuchitril m. -- hovel (syn: casucha). in RAE cucurucho -- cone (used for sweets and ice cream specially) cuajada -- milk curd (in RAE) de cuando en cuando -- every so often cuarentón -- person in their 40s, usually a bit derogatory cuarteador cuartel m. -- barracks; military headquarters cuatrero -- NOT in babelfish, in RAE, rustler cuco -- cuckoo; sandman cueriza f. cuestión f. -- question, problem, matter, issue culantro -- Central American spelling of cilantro culata f. -- stock, buttstock culatazo -- a hit with the culata (the back part of a gun) culeado -- ass-fucked (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay); very informal term of address (Córdoba, Argentina) culebra f. -- snake culebrear vi -- to slither cumanagota cupo -- quota curtida f. -- like coleslaw, used to top pupusas in El Salvador (or is it cortida?) cuscatleco -- in RAE

[edit] Ch

chacina f. -- bresaola, jerky (in RAE) chacinería f. -- deli chacra f. -- farm (Argentina) chafarote -- boor, bully (Mexico) (NOT in babelfish) chajá m. -- crested screamer (Chauna torquata), a bird chalupa f. -- skiff; chalupa (Mexican food item) chambonada f. -- fumble (n) (Argentina) chamo m. -- kid, buddy (Venezuela) chamoy m. -- crack seed chan m. (Costa Rica) (needs Spanish) -- chia (Salvia hispanica) carroña f. -- carrion chanchullo m. -- dirty business chancro -- chancre changarro m. -- (Mexico) small shop, store chape m. -- tress, braid chapalear -- wade; splash in shallow water chapaleta f. -- diving fin chapistería -- metal workshop (Spain) chapín m. -- old-fashioned cork-soled shoe (in RAE) chapoteadero m. -- in RAE, shallow pool for kids to splash around in charapa m. -- Arrau turtle charcutería f. -- deli; cured meats (as a food type) charretera f. -- shoulder badge (in RAE) chayote m. (needs Spanish) -- chayote, christophine (Sechium edule) chelada -- not in RAE, drink of beer, salt, and ice. seen and queried on menu in Playa de Sol, Chiapas, Mexico Chepe -- nickname of San Jose, Costa Rica chía -- chia (Salvia hispanica) chicha -- (Panama) the fermented juice of mesquite, algarrobo or maize, consumed as an alcoholic drink (in RAE); gist (Spain, colloquial) chicharronera -- typical Costa Rican restaurant specialising in chicharrones chicheme n -- (needs Spanish) (Panama) a certain kind of chicha. NOT in RAE. NOT in babelfish chiclayana a f. -- native of Chiclayo

chilate -- (El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) in RAE. a refreshing drink made from toasted corn and chile, of a similar consistency to atol chile mundial chile panameño chilera -- type of spicy salsa in Costa Rica? (related: chile) chilote -- native to Chiloé, in Southern Chile chilpachole -- not in RAE or BDM, method of preparing jaiba seen and queried on menu in Playa de Sol, Chiapas, Mexico chiltoma –- bell pepper chimichurri -- a hot, spicy marinade consumed in different preparations all across Latin America chimpanchole -- rarer variant spelling of chilpachole chiqueadores plural -- birthmark (archaic) (in RAE) chirmol, chismol, chimol m. (Guatemala City, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua) -- a type of salsa that looks like what in Mexico is called pico de gallo, in RAE chistera -- top hat (NOT in babelfish) chiverre m. -- chilacayote, malabar gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia) (not in DRAE) chocolatería -- shop or stall which sells chocolate and other sweets / candy / lollies. in RAE chola (needs Spanish) a f. -- feminine form of cholo, a derogatory term for Amerindians in Peru and Ecuador chonta -- a native people of Amazonia; also a Chilean palm, Juania australis choripán m. -- a sausage (chorizo) baked inside a pastry roll (pan. Like a sausage roll in Australia. in RAE choriqueso -- not in RAE or DBM, mixture of Mexican chorizo and queso chorrito -- diminutive of chorro chotis singular -- schottis (in RAE) chúcaro -- wild, untamed chucheca f. -- (Costa Rica) A species of large oyster (see: ostión) chuchupo -- a wild grass native to the Andes chuncho -- a native people of Eastern Peru chunga f. -- comes from chungo chungo adj -- difficult, hard (Spain); undesirable; racial chuletería -- steakhouse churrasco m. -- grilled flank steak (in RAE) churrasquería f. -- steakhouse

[edit] D

d’ (needs Spanish) -- NOT in RAE, seen on many signs in Chiapas and Guatemala, is it a variant of <