yegua

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin equa (compare Catalan euga, Galician egua, Portuguese égua, Romanian iapă), feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟ͡ʝeɡwa/, [ˈɟ͡ʝeɣwa]

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

1. mare
2. heifer
3. a contemptible fat woman
4. The letter Y in the Spanish phonetic alphabet

See also

• caballo

Further reading

• “yegua” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.