castaña

See also: castana, Castana, and castană

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin castanea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kas̪ˈt̪a.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ña

Noun

castaña f (plural castañes)

1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

Related terms

• castañal
• castañu
• castañéu

Galician

Castañas ("chestnuts")

Alternative forms

• castanha (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kɑs̺ˈt̪a.ɲɐ]
• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Hyphenation: cas‧ta‧ña

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
   • 1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Ediciós do Castro, page 148:

     seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podre

     six measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones

Adjective

castaña f sg

1. feminine singular of castaño

Related terms

• Castañal
• Castañedo
• Castañeira
• Castañoso
• Casteda
• Castedo
• Castenda
• Castido
• Castiñeira
• Castiñeiras
• Castiñeiriño
• Castiñeiro
• castiñeiro
• Castiñeiros
• castiro

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castaña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castaña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “castaña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ña

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)

   Synonyms: torta, trastazo

3. bun, chignon (haircut)
4. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera

5. (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
6. (colloquial) piece of junk

   Synonym: trasto

7. (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)

   Synonym: año

   Tiene 40 castañas

   He's 40 (years old)

Derived terms

• castaña de cajú
• castañuela
• castañuelo
• sacar las castañas del fuego

Related terms

• castañero
• castaño

Descendants

• ⇒ Spanish: castañeta
  • → Czech: kastaněty
  • → English: castanet
  • → Estonian: kastanjett
  • → French: castagnette
    • → Dutch: castagnet
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kastanjett
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kastanjett
  • → Finnish: kastanjetti
  • → Hungarian: kasztanyetta
  • → Irish: castainéid
  • → Italian: castagnetta
  • → Japanese: カスタネット
  • → Macedonian: кастане́ти (kastanéti)
  • → Polish: kastaniety
  • → Romanian: castanietă
  • → Russian: кастаньета (kastanʹjeta)
• → Cebuano: kastanyas (from the plural)
• → Tagalog: kastanyas (from the plural)

Adjective

castaña

1. feminine singular of castaño

Further reading

• “castaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024