sierra

See also: Sierra

Translingual

Noun

sierra

2. Alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈɛɹə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛɹə

Noun

sierra (countable and uncountable, plural sierras)

1. A rugged range of mountains.

   Holonym: cordillera

   Meronym: sawback

3. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
4. A scombroid fish.
5. (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
   • 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:

     Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.

Derived terms

• Sierra County
• Sierra Leone
• Sierra Nevada

Related terms

• Montserrat
• serrated
• serration

Anagrams

• reairs, airers, 'Arries, iraser, Rieras, raiser, re-airs, arsier, arries

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. mountain-range

References

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002), “sierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

Asturian

Alternative forms

• serra

Etymology

From Latin serra.

Noun

sierra f (plural sierres)

1. saw (tool)

Related terms

serrar

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish sierra (“saw”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjera/, [ˈʃe.ra]
• Hyphenation: con‧ver‧sa‧da

Noun

sierra

1. (Caviteño, Zamboangueño) saw (tool)

   Synonym: (Cotabateño, Ternateño) lagari

French

Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. (geography) sierra

Further reading

• “sierra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sierra.

Noun

sierra f (invariable)

1. sierra

Anagrams

• arresi, arrise, riarse, riresa, serrai

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -era
• Syllabification: sie‧rra
• Homophone: (Latin America) cierra

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin serra.

Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)

1. saw (tool)
2. mountain range

   Sierra Madre Occidental

   Western Mother Mountain Range (part of the Sierra Madre)

3. sawfish
4. (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)

Derived terms

• caballero de sierra
• dientes de sierra
• gallina de la sierra
• madera de sierra
• motosierra
• sierra caladora
• sierra circular
• sierra de arco
• sierra de cinta
• sierra de ingelte
• Sierra de la Ventana
• sierra de mano
• sierra de punta
• sierra de sable
• sierra de vaivén
• sierra eléctrica
• sierra ingletadora
• sierra para metales
• té de la sierra
• vizcacha de la sierra

Related terms

• aserradero
• aserrar
• aserrín
• serrano
• serrezuela
• serrino
• serrucho

Descendants

• → English: sierra

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sierra

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

Further reading

• “sierra”, 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