Appendix:Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender
The following Spanish nouns have different meanings depending on their gender:
- batería
- female: battery or drum kit
- male: drummer
- busca
- female: search
- male: pager
- cabeza
- female: head
- male: dude
- capital
- female: capital city
- male: financing capital
- cólera
- female: anger
- male: cholera
- cometa
- female: kite (toy or shape)
- male: comet
- corte
- female: court (location where a court case happens)
- male: cut or haircut
- cura
- female: cure or drunkenness or avocado
- male: curate (priest)
- delta
- female: delta (Greek letter)
- male: delta (body of water)
- editorial
- female: publisher
- male: editorial
- frente
- female: forehead or brow
- male: front (side but also military and political fronts)
- mañana
- female: morning
- male: tomorrow
- margen
- female: river bank
- male: margin or edge
- orden
- female: order (commend or military/religious order or food order at a restaurant)
- male: order (arrangement) or orderliness or good behavior
- papa
- female: potato or childishness name for soup or babble
- male: pope
- pez
- female: pitch/tar
- male: fish (as an animal, not food) or idiot
- policía
- female: civility or a police force
- male: a police officer
- radio
- female: radio programming
- male: radio (the device) or radius (anatomical or geometric) or radium
- vocal
- female: vowel
- male: voter