aguja
Chavacano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Spanish aguja, from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aguja
Spanish
[edit]
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Late Latin acūcula, diminutive of Latin acus (“needle”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-. Compare Sicilian agugghia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aguja f (plural agujas)
- needle
- ¿Tiene usted una aguja para coser estos botones?
- Do you have a needle to sew on these buttons?
- hand (of a clock)
- (military) firing pin
- (architecture) spire, steeple
- glaive
- Synonym: lanza
- (railroad) switch
- Venus comb
- Synonym: peine de Venus
Derived terms
[edit]- aguja colipinta
- aguja de arria
- aguja de bitácora
- aguja de enjalmar
- aguja de ensalmar
- aguja de fogón
- aguja de gancho
- aguja de marcar
- aguja de marear
- aguja de mechar
- aguja de media
- aguja de pastor
- aguja de punto
- aguja de tejer
- aguja en un pajar
- agujazo
- agujero
- agujeta
- agujón
- cuartear la aguja
- en el sentido de las agujas del reloj
- en sentido contrario a las agujas del reloj
- guardagujas
- tacón de aguja
- zapato de aguja
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Chavacano: aguja
- → Copainalá Zoque: acuša
- → Ladino: alguja
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: a̱co̱xaj
- → Northern Puebla Nahuatl: acoxa
- → Tagalog: aguha
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: öcuxa
- → Ye'kwana: makusa
Further reading
[edit]- “aguja”, 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:
- Chavacano terms inherited from Spanish
- Chavacano terms derived from Spanish
- Chavacano terms inherited from Late Latin
- Chavacano terms derived from Late Latin
- Chavacano terms derived from Latin
- Chavacano terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Chavacano terms with IPA pronunciation
- Chavacano lemmas
- Chavacano nouns
- Spanish terms inherited from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/uxa
- Rhymes:Spanish/uxa/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with usage examples
- es:Military
- es:Architectural elements
- es:Sewing
- es:Scandiceae tribe plants