aranya

See also: aránya

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arānea (compare Occitan aranha, French araignée, Spanish araña). Probably a doublet of ronya, from a Vulgar Latin derivative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əˈɾa.ɲə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [aˈɾa.ɲa]

• Audio (Valencia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɲa

Noun

aranya f (plural aranyes)

1. spider
2. chandelier
3. weever (any of nine species of fish in the family Trachinidae)

Derived terms

• aranya blanca
• aranya de potes llargues
• aranya fragata
• aranyera
• aranyeta
• aranyó

Further reading

• “aranya”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aranya”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “aranya” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “aranya”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Hungarian

Etymology

arany +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒrɒɲɒ]
• Hyphenation: ara‧nya

Noun

aranya

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of arany

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	aranya	—
accusative	aranyát	—
dative	aranyának	—
instrumental	aranyával	—
causal-final	aranyáért	—
translative	aranyává	—
terminative	aranyáig	—
essive-formal	aranyaként	—
essive-modal	aranyául	—
inessive	aranyában	—
superessive	aranyán	—
adessive	aranyánál	—
illative	aranyába	—
sublative	aranyára	—
allative	aranyához	—
elative	aranyából	—
delative	aranyáról	—
ablative	aranyától	—
non-attributive possessive – singular	aranyáé	—
non-attributive possessive – plural	aranyáéi	—

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish araña (“spider; chandelier”), from Old Spanish aranna, from Latin arānea. See also Spanish araña de luces (“chandelier”) and Ancient Greek ἀράχνη (arákhnē). Doublet of aranyas.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaɾanˈja/ [ʔɐ.ɾɐnˈɲa], /ʔaˈɾanja/ [ʔɐˈɾaː.ɲɐ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /ʔaɾanˈja/ [ʔɐ.ɾɐn̪ˈja], (no palatal assimilation) /ʔaˈɾanja/ [ʔɐˈɾan̪.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -a, -anja
• Syllabification: a‧ran‧ya

Noun

aranyá or aranya (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇᜈ᜔ᜌ)

1. chandelier

   Synonym: tsandelyer

2. (uncommon) spider

   Synonym: gagamba

Further reading

• “aranya”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018