avellana

See also: avellaná

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin abellana, from Avella, a city in Italy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.βəˈʎa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.vəˈʎa.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.veˈʎa.na]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Noun

avellana f (plural avellanes)

1. hazelnut

Derived terms

• avellanar
• avellanat
• avellaneda
• avellanenc
• avellaner
• avellaneta
• avellanor
• avellanosa

Further reading

• “avellana”, 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
• “avellana”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “avellana” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “avellana”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin (nux) Abellāna (literally “(nut) from Abella”), from the toponym Abella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.velˈla.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: a‧vel‧là‧na

Noun

avellana f (plural avellane)

1. synonym of nocciola (“hazelnut”)
2. (heraldry) avellane cross

Further reading

• avellana in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• allenava, anellava

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /abeˈʝana/ [a.β̞eˈʝa.na]

• IPA^(key): /abeˈʝana/ [a.β̞eˈʝa.na] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Latin America and Spain)
• IPA^(key): /abeˈʎana/ [a.β̞eˈʎa.na] (Andes Mountains, rustic northern Spain, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /abeˈʃana/ [a.β̞eˈʃa.na] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /abeˈʒana/ [a.β̞eˈʒa.na] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: a‧ve‧lla‧na

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin abellana, from Avella, a city in Italy.

Noun

avellana f (plural avellanas)

1. hazelnut

Derived terms

• avellanada
• avellanar
• avellaneda
• avellanedo
• avellano
• leche de avellana

Descendants

• → Hiligaynon: abelyana

Adjective

avellana (invariable)

1. hazel (eye color)

   ojos avellana ― hazel eyes

Etymology 2

Verb

avellana

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

Further reading

• “avellana”, 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