madrugada

From Old Galician-Portuguese madurgada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from the verb madurgar (Modern Galician madrugar).

• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

1. the period between midnight and sunrise; early morning

   Hyponym: altas horas

2. dawn

   Synonyms: abrente, alborada, amañecida

• madrugar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “madurgada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “madurgada”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “madrugada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “madrugada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “madrugada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Portuguese madrugada.

madrugada

1. dawn

madrugada f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מאדֿרוגאדֿא, plural madrugadas)

1. dawn, early morning

From madrugado, from the verb madrugar.

• Hyphenation: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

2. the period between midnight and sunrise; early morning

   Synonym: (slang) madruga

4. (figurative) dawn (the first stages of a process)

   Synonyms: alvorada, nascer

For quotations using this term, see Citations:madrugada.

• madrugar

• amanhecer
• manhã

madrugada f sg

1. feminine singular of madrugado

From the past participle of madrugar.

• IPA^(key): /madɾuˈɡada/ [ma.ð̞ɾuˈɣ̞a.ð̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: ma‧dru‧ga‧da

madrugada f (plural madrugadas)

1. dawn
2. early hours of the morning, before dawn; the period of time between midnight and sunrise

• alba
• amanecer
• mañana

madrugada f sg

1. feminine singular of madrugado

• “madrugada”, 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