Feminine

macana

Meaning

  1. (Latin-America, feminine) a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America
  2. (Bolivia, El-Salvador, Honduras, Latin-America, Nicaragua, Puerto-Rico, feminine) a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America
  3. (Bolivia, Caribbean, Chile, Guatemala, Latin-America, Mexico, feminine, vulgar) a type of long club, sometimes studded with sharp pieces of rock, used by the natives of America
  4. (feminine, uncountable) the wood of the peach palm
  5. (Bolivia, colloquial, feminine, rare) an unpleasant situation
  6. (Bolivia, Paraguay, Rioplatense, colloquial, feminine, rare) lie
  7. (Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Rioplatense, Uruguay, colloquial, feminine, rare) lie
  8. (Bolivia, Paraguay, Rioplatense, Uruguay, colloquial, feminine, rare) lie
  9. (Central-America, feminine) hoe
  10. (feminine) a baluster of a balcony’s balustrade

Hyphenated as
ma‧ca‧na
Pronounced as (IPA)
/maˈkana/
Etymology

From Taíno *makana.

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