cincha

Aragonese

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin cingulum.

Noun

cincha f

1. belt

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese çinlla (attested since the 13th century), from Latin cingula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθint͡ʃa̝/, (western) /ˈsint͡ʃa̝/

Noun

cincha f (plural cinchas)

1. girth

   Synonym: cenlla

   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 112:

     Et tãto era o sangue dos mouros que y morrerõ que nadauã os caualos en el ata as çenllas.

     And so much was the blood of the Moors that died there that the horses swam in it till their girths

Derived terms

• cinchar

Related terms

• cincho (“girdle, hoop, clamp”)

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “çinlla”, 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), “cincha”, 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 Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “cincha”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cincha”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cincha”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Etymology 2

Verb

cincha

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθint͡ʃa/ [ˈθĩnʲ.t͡ʃa] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈsint͡ʃa/ [ˈsĩnʲ.t͡ʃa] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -intʃa
• Syllabification: cin‧cha

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *cingla, syncopated form of Latin cingula. Doublet of cencha. Cf. also the related cincho.

Noun

cincha f (plural cinchas)

1. girth (for horses or similar animals)
2. (climbing) sling

   Synonym: eslinga

Related terms

• cincho

Etymology 2

Verb

cincha

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

Further reading

• “cincha”, 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