joya
Appearance
See also: Joya
Old Occitan
[edit]Noun
[edit]joya f (oblique plural joyas, nominative singular joya, nominative plural joyas)
- Alternative form of joia
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French joie, alternative form of jouel (source of modern French joyau and Spanish joyel), from Latin jocus.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]joya f (plural joyas)
- jewellery, jewelry
- jewel, piece of jewelry
- Synonym: alhaja
- (figurative) gem; treasure
- (Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Bolivia, derogatory in Colombia) conniver
- (Nicaragua, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Uruguay) a person of poor reputation
- (El Salvador, Puerto Rico, rustic, geography) basin
Derived terms
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]joya m or f (masculine and feminine plural joyas)
Further reading
[edit]- “joya”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
Categories:
- Old Occitan lemmas
- Old Occitan nouns
- Old Occitan feminine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Old French
- Spanish terms derived from Old French
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yek-
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa
- Rhymes:Spanish/oʝa/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Nicaraguan Spanish
- Costa Rican Spanish
- Bolivian Spanish
- Spanish derogatory terms
- Colombian Spanish
- Paraguayan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Uruguayan Spanish
- Salvadorian Spanish
- Puerto Rican Spanish
- Spanish rustic terms
- es:Geography
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives
- Rioplatense Spanish
- es:Gems