ginebra

See also: Ginebra

Catalan

Etymology

First attested in 1868; formally the feminine of ginebre, but possibly taken as an adaptation of French genièvre or English geneva (“gin”), cf. also jenever.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ʒiˈne̞.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ʒiˈne.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ʒiˈne.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒiˈne.bɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ʒiˈne.βɾa]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Noun

ginebra f (plural ginebres)

1. gin
   • 1934, Joan Puig i Ferreter, Camins de França:

     Era una beguda forta, com ginebra o whisky, el nom de la qual jo no havia sentit mai.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• →? Spanish: ginebra

Further reading

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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French genièvre (“juniper”), or possibly Catalan ginebra, itself either from ginebre, or taken from French geneva or English geneva. Doublet of enebro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xiˈnebɾa/ [xiˈne.β̞ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ebɾa
• Syllabification: gi‧ne‧bra

Noun

ginebra f (plural ginebras)

1. (drinks) gin

   Synonym: gin

Descendants

• → Cebuano: hinebra
• → Tagalog: hinebra

Further reading

• “ginebra”, 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