zaguán
Appearance
See also: zaguan
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Andalusian Arabic إِسْطِوَان (ʔisṭiwān), from Arabic أُسْطُوَانَة (ʔusṭuwāna, “pillar”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /θaˈɡwan/ [θaˈɣ̞wãn]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /saˈɡwan/ [saˈɣ̞wãn]
- Rhymes: -an
- Syllabification: za‧guán
Noun
[edit]zaguán m (plural zaguanes)
- vestibule; front hall or entryway; foyer
- 1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, page 85:
- Una de las caras libres da a un angosto zaguán, que desemboca en otra galería, idéntica a la primera y a todas. A izquierda y a derecha del zaguán hay dos gabinetes minúsculos.
- One of the free plots faces a narrow vestibule, which leads into another gallery, identical to the first one and to all of them. To the left and right of the vestibule there are two little cabinets.
- 1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:
- Solo encontré borrachos que me ignoraron y sombras que al pasar se ocultaban en los inmensos zaguanes de la avenida Medvedsita.
- I only found drunkards who ignored me and shadows that hid in the huge hallways of Medvedsita Avenue as they passed.
- (Mexico) gate protecting a front yard or patio
- Synonym: portón
Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: saguão
Further reading
[edit]- “zaguán”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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