castaña

See also: castana, Castana, and castană

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin castanea.

Noun

castaña f (plural castañes)

1. chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

Related terms

• castañal
• castañu

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Galician

Castañas ("chestnuts")

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa̝/

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
   • 1418, Manuel Lucas Álvarez & Pedro Lucas Domínguez (eds.), El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media. Sada / A Coruña: 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
• Castenda
• Castedo
• Castido
• Castiñeira
• Castiñeiras
• Castiñeiriño
• castiñeiro
• Castiñeiro
• Castiñeiros
• castiro

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
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• “castaña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kasˈtaɲa/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲa]

Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)

1. chestnut
2. (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
3. bun, chignon (haircut)
4. (colloquial) drunkenness
5. (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
6. (colloquial) piece of junk
7. (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)

   Tiene 40 castañas

   He's 40 (years old)

Synonyms

• (drunkenness): See Thesaurus:borrachera.
• (year): año

Derived terms

• castañuela
• castañuelo
• sacar las castañas del fuego

 

Descendants

• ⇒ Spanish: castañeta
  • → Czech: kastaněty
  • → English: castanet
  • → Estonian: kastanjett
  • → French: castagnette
    • → Dutch: castagnet
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: kastanjett
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: kastanjett
  • → Finnish: kastanjetit
  • → 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)

Related terms

• castañero
• castaño

Adjective

castaña

1. feminine singular of castaño

Further reading

• “castaña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014