franela
Spanish
A T-shirt
Etymology
Borrowed from French flanelle, from English flannel.
Pronunciation
Noun
franela f (plural franelas)
- flannel (a soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers)
- (Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela) T-shirt
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:camiseta
Descendants
Further reading
- “franela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Categories:
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂welh₁- (wool)
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ela
- Rhymes:Spanish/ela/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Dominican Spanish
- Colombian Spanish
- Venezuelan Spanish
- es:Clothing
- es:Fabrics