araña

See also: arana, aranã, and arañá

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin arānea. Compar roña.

Noun

araña f (plural arañes)

1. spider

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Galician

Araña

Etymology

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

Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa̝/

Noun

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. (figurative) a slow worker

Derived terms

• arañeira
• tea de araña

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “aranna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “aranna”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “araña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “araña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “araña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “araña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

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Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish araña and Portuguese aranha and Kabuverdianu aranha .

Noun

araña

1. spider

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa/ [aˈɾa.ɲa]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider

   Hypernym: arácnido

Derived terms

• araña de luces
• araña de mar
• araña patona
• araña saltarina
• arañero
• arañita
• lámpara de araña
• mono araña
• telaraña

 

Related terms

• arácnido
• musaraña

See also

• arañar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

araña

1. inflection of arañar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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