oreja

Catalan

Verb

oreja

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

Finnish

Noun

oreja

1. partitive plural of ori

Anagrams

• eroja

Ladino

Alternative forms

• oreža (Yugoslavia)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish oreja, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Compare Portuguese orelha.

Noun

oreja f (Hebrew spelling אוריז׳ה)

1. (countable) ear (the organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea)

   Synonym: oido

   • 1982, Enrique Saporta y Beja, En torno de la torre blanca‎^[1], Editions Vidas Largas, page 28:

     Djugava de oreja, i no tenia buena oreja !

     [Somebody] was playing by ear, and [they] did not have a good ear!

Derived terms

• orejal

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• oreia

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Compare Old Galician-Portuguese orelha.

Noun

oreja f (plural orejas)

1. (countable) ear (the organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna or auricle, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea)

   Synonym: oido

   • 1443, Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Cvruiosa y Ocvlta Filosofia. Primera, y Segvnda Parte de las marauillas de las naturaleza, examinadas en varias queſtiones naturales.‎^[2], page 367:

     Los animales de grandes orejas, ò de agudo oydo, ſiruen contra el mal de los oydos, como las Liebres.

     Animals with great ears, or with great hearing, such as hares, withstand harm to the ears.

Descendants

• Ladino: oreja, אוריז׳ה
• Spanish: oreja

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “oreja”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 371

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish oreja, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Compare Portuguese orelha. Doublet of aurícula, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈɾexa/ [oˈɾe.xa]

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• Rhymes: -exa
• Syllabification: o‧re‧ja

Noun

oreja f (plural orejas, diminutive orejita, augmentative orejón)

1. (anatomy) outer ear; auricle; ear (used for references to the external or tangible of the ear)

   Meronym: oído

   Me duelen las orejas.

   My ears hurt.

Derived terms

• aguzar las orejas
• amusgar las orejas
• de cuatro orejas
• el burro hablando de orejas
• mojar la oreja
• oreja de abad
• oreja de elefante
• oreja de fraile
• oreja de gato
• oreja de Judas
• oreja de liebre
• oreja de mar
• oreja de monje
• oreja de negro
• oreja de oso
• oreja de ratón
• orejas de burro
• orejas de soplillo
• orejera
• parar la oreja
• planchar la oreja
• retiñir las orejas
• taparse las orejas
• tener la mosca detrás de la oreja
• tirón de orejas
• ver las orejas al lobo

Related terms

• auricular

Further reading

• “oreja”, 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

Anagrams

• oraje, ojera