aduana

Galician

Verb

aduana

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

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Spanish aduana.

Noun

aduána

1. customs (office that taxes imported goods)
2. tax, toll

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِيوَان (dīwān), through Andalusian Arabic, ultimately of Persian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.duˈɐ̃.nɐ/, (faster) /aˈdwɐ̃.nɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdwɐ.nɐ/ [ɐˈðwɐ.nɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdwɐ.nɐ/ [ɐˈðwɐ.nɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdwa.nɐ/ [ɐˈðwa.nɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈdwɐ.nɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ

• Audio (Brazil):

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• Hyphenation: a‧du‧a‧na

Noun

aduana f (plural aduanas)

1. customs (agency that collect the taxes on imported goods)

   Synonym: alfândega

Further reading

• “aduana”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “aduana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish [Term?], from Andalusian Arabic الديوان (ad-dīwān, “the administrative office”), from Arabic دِيوَان (dīwān, “administrative office”), from Persian دیوان (dêvân), ultimately from Sumerian 𒁾 (dub).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈdwana/ [aˈð̞wa.na]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: a‧dua‧na

Noun

aduana f (plural aduanas)

1. customs (office that taxes imported goods)

Derived terms

• aduanal
• aduanero
• despachante de aduana
• repertorio de aduanas

Descendants

• → Basque: aduana
• → Hiligaynon: aduana
• → Tagalog: adwana
• → Waray-Waray: adwana

Further reading

• “aduana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025