cuchilla
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom cuchillo, inherited from Latin cultellus.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kuˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʝa]
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kuˈt͡ʃiʎa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʎa]
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kuˈt͡ʃiʃa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʃa]
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kuˈt͡ʃiʒa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʒa]
- Syllabification: cu‧chi‧lla
Noun
editcuchilla f (plural cuchillas)
- knife
- cleaver
- blade of a sword
- hogback
- gore (of a road)
- razor blade
- (Uruguay) low rolling hill typical of the pampas landscape
- Synonym: lomada entrerriana
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cuchilla”, 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 Latin
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʝa
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʝa/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʎa
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʎa/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃa
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʃa/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʒa
- Rhymes:Spanish/iʒa/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Uruguayan Spanish
- es:Cutlery