ballena

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

ballena f (plural ballenas)

1. whale

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “ballena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Noun

ballena f (plural ballenes)

1. whale

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited 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 φάλλαινα (phállaina).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baˈʎena/ [baˈʎe.na]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈʃena/ [baˈʃe.na]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈʒena/ [baˈʒe.na]

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• Rhymes: -ena
• Syllabification: ba‧lle‧na

Noun

ballena f (plural ballenas)

1. whale
2. baleen, whalebone

   Synonym: barbas de ballena

Hypernyms

• (whale): cetáceo

Derived terms

• ballena asesina
• ballena azul
• ballena de aletas
• ballena de Groenlandia
• ballena franca
• ballena gris
• ballena jorobada
• ballena picuda
• ballenato
• ballenero
• barbas de ballena
• esperma de ballena
• llena como una ballena
• tiburón ballena

 

Descendants

• → Cebuano: balyena
• → Huave: ballen
• → Masbatenyo: balyena
• → Tagalog: balyena

Further reading

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