ballena

Aragonese

Etymology

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Noun

ballena f (plural ballenas)

1. whale

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “ballena”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

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Asturian

Noun

ballena f (plural ballenes)

1. whale

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Spanish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Spanish ballena, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena (compare Catalan balena, French baleine, Galician balea, Italian balena, Portuguese baleia, Romanian balenă), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /baˈʝena/ [baˈʝe.na]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /baˈʎena/ [baˈʎe.na]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /baˈʃena/ [baˈʃe.na]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /baˈʒena/ [baˈʒe.na]

Noun

ballena f (plural ballenas)

1. whale
2. baleen, whalebone

Synonyms

• (baleen): barbas de ballena

Hypernyms

• (whale): cetáceo

Derived terms

• ballena asesina
• ballena azul
• ballena de aletas
• ballena de Groenlandia
• ballena franca
• ballena gris
• ballena jorobada
• ballenato
• ballenero
• barbas de ballena
• esperma de ballena
• llena como una ballena
• tiburón ballena

 

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001