Femení

comadreja

Significat (Anglès)

  1. (feminine) weasel (a mammal of the genus Mustela)
  2. (feminine) marten
  3. (Paraguay, Rioplatense, feminine) opossum, possum (especially the white-eared opossum Didelphis Albiventris)

Conceptes

Sinònims

muca

zorro cola pelada

zorro pelón

tacuacín

gato del árbol

viverrid

armiňo

zorra mochilera

comadreja común

mostel

mustela

whittret

civet de la palma

Traduccions

Mauswiesel

νυφίτσα

Mustela nivalis

Hermännchen

Kleinwiesel

Freqüència

C2
Amb guionet com a
co‧ma‧dre‧ja
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/komaˈdɾexa/
Etimologia (Anglès)

In summary

From comadre (“midwife; godmother”) + -eja (diminutive suffix), said to be after its sinuous and nimble (and therefore “feminine”) figure. Compare equivalents in other Romance languages (Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Galician doniña, Romanian nevăstuică) but not only (Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa), Danish brud, Arabic اِبْن عِرْس (ibn ʕirs)).

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