piña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pina"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish piña.

Noun

piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)

1. cloth woven from pineapple fiber
2. (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
3. (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.

Translations

cloth

• Finnish: ananashamppu

Anagrams

• APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pian

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiɲɐ]

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

1. pinecone
2. pineapple
3. bunch (of grapes)

   Synonyms: acio, cacho

Derived terms

• piñeiro

References

• “piña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “piña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “piña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Una piña de pino (a pinecone).

Una piña tropical (a pineapple).

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]
• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Syllabification: pi‧ña

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

1. (botany) pinecone

   Synonyms: estróbilo, cono

2. (fruit) pineapple

   Synonyms: ananá (Argentina, Uruguay), ananás

3. (Canaries, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba, Uruguay) punch (blow with the fist)

   Synonym: puñetazo

4. (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
5. (figurative) close-knit group
   • 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):

     […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. the core of the agave plant
7. (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male

Derived terms

• apiñar
• piña colada
• piñal
• piñata
• piñazo
• piñón

 

Related terms

• pino

 

Descendants

• → English: piña
• → Bikol Central: pinya
• → Cebuano: pinya
• → Hiligaynon: pinya
• → Tagalog: pinya

Further reading

• “piña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es