muñeca
Meaning
- (feminine) wrist
- (feminine,form-of) female equivalent of muñeco (“doll”)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mu‧ñe‧ca
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/muˈɲeka/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish munneca, from Old Spanish monneka (“milestone or landmark”) (a. 1011), from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, possibly pre-Indo-European. Compare Basque muino (“hill”). Its original meaning was first 'milestone or landmark', then 'protuberance', from which both senses of 'wrist' and 'doll' come. Some have suggested it may have originated from monnula (“(female) friend”). Compare Spanish moño (“a bow, ribbon”) and muñón (“stump”); see also Portuguese boneca (“doll”). Attested as early as 1011, first attested as 'doll' in 1400.
New
muñeco
- (masculine) doll
- (masculine) puppet
- (masculine) attractive male
- (masculine) any of various South American trees of the genus Cordia, such as Cordia borinquena or Cordia collococca.
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