ademán
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See also: ademan
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain; possibly from Arabic الضَّمَان (aḍ-ḍamān).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ademán m (plural ademanes)
- gesture (motion of the body)
- Synonym: gesto
- posture, position
- (in the plural) manners
- Synonym: modales
- 2022 May 26, Elsa Fernández-Santos, “El español Albert Serra deslumbra en Cannes con el paraíso crepuscular de su nueva película”, in El País[1]:
- Es el viaje por una isla fantasma de un hombre de ademanes mafiosos y pensamientos erráticos y confusos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “ademán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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