piña
Meaning
- (feminine) pinecone
- (feminine) pineapple
- (Argentina,Bolivia,Canary-Islands,Cuba,Honduras,Paraguay,Uruguay,feminine) punch (blow with the fist)
- (Argentina,colloquial,feminine) collision, accident, crash
- (feminine,figuratively) close-knit group
- (feminine) the core of the agave plant
- (El-Salvador,colloquial,feminine) gay male
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Frequency
Hyphenated as
pi‧ña
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpiɲa/
Etymology
Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.
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