leña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lena"

Blin

Other scripts

Latin		leña
Ge'ez		ለጛ (läŋa)

Etymology

From Proto-Agaw *läŋ-/*laŋa ("two"), from Proto-Cushitic *ɬam- (“two”). Cognate with Awngi ሊጛ (linga).

Blin cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : leña     Ordinal : liñer

Numeral

leña

1. two

References

• Reinisch, L. (1887). Die Blin-Sprache. (In German), page 258

Galician

Leña

Etymology

13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lenha (“firewood”), from Latin ligna, plural of lignum (“log”). Compare Portuguese lenha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɲa/ [ˈle.ɲɐ]
• Rhymes: -eɲa
• Hyphenation: le‧ña

Noun

leña f (uncountable)

1. firewood (pieces gathered to make fire)
   • 1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en Romance:

     A quem Deus quer bem, o vento lle apaña a leña

     the wind collects the firewood of the ones well loved by God

Related terms

• dar leña
• leñador
• leñeira
• leño

References

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “lenna”, 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), “leña”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “leña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “leña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “leña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɲa/ [ˈle.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -eɲa
• Syllabification: le‧ña

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish lenna, from Latin ligna, plural of lignum.

Noun

leña f (plural leñas)

1. firewood, wood (pieces of wood gathered to burn as fuel)
2. kindling

   Synonym: astillas

Related terms

• añadir leña al fuego
• echar leña al fuego
• estufa de leña (“wood stove”)
• hacer leña del árbol caído
• leña menuda (“kindling”)
• leñador
• leñar
• leñero
• leño
• leñoso
• llevar leña al monte
• poner leña al fuego

See also

• madera

Etymology 2

Verb

leña

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

Further reading

• “leña”, 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