comadreja

Senso (Inglese)

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)

Concetti

donnola

donnole

ermellino

martora

opossum

zibellino

sinonimi

zarigüeya

raposa

muca

tlacuache

chucha

faro

carachupa

rabipelado

zorro cola pelada

zorro pelón

tacuazín

tacuacín

gato del árbol

viverrid

armiňo

marta

zorra mochilera

comadreja común

mostel

mustela

comadre

turón

mostela

whittret

civet de la palma

Traduzioni

weasel

Wiesel

belette

wezel

doninha

Mauswiesel

νυφίτσα

mostela

opossum

Mustela nivalis

Beutelratte

Opossum

least weasel

marten

Con il trattino come

co‧ma‧dre‧ja

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/komaˈdɾexa/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine italiano: donnola

Affine portoghese: doninha

Affine galiziano: doniña

Affine rumeno: nevăstuică

Affine greco: νυφίτσα

Affine danese: brud

Affine arabo: اِبْن عِرْس

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)).