Masculine
pájaro
Meaning
- (masculine) bird, especially a perching bird
- (Cuba, Dominican-Republic, masculine, slang) homosexual
- (Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, colloquial, masculine) penis
- (Spain, colloquial, masculine) person of questionable or shady character, or involved in dubious affairs
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Frequency
Hyphenated as
pá‧ja‧ro
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpaxaɾo/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Spanish páxaro, pássaro, from Vulgar Latin *passarum, alteration of Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare Portuguese pássaro. A distant cognate of peña.
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