pájaro
See also: Pajaro
Spanish
editEtymology
editInherited 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.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈpaxaɾo/ [ˈpa.xa.ɾo]
Audio (Spain): (file) Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -axaɾo
- Syllabification: pá‧ja‧ro
Noun
editpájaro m (plural pájaros)
- bird, especially a perching bird
- Hypernym: (any bird) ave
- (Dominican Republic, Cuba, slang) homosexual
- (colloquial, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela) penis
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene
- (colloquial, Spain) person of questionable or shady character, or involved in dubious affairs
Derived terms
edit- a vuelo de pájaro (“as the crow flies”)
- cabeza a pájaros
- cazar el pájaro
- espantapájaros
- írsele el pájaro
- leche de pájaro
- más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando
- matar dos pájaros de un tiro
- no hay pájaros en los nidos de ayer (“youth passes quickly”, literally “there are no birds in the nests of yesterday”)
- pajarera
- pajarero (“bird seller, bird breeder”)
- pajaril
- pajarita
- pajarito
- pájaro bobo (“penguin”)
- pájaro cantor (“songbird”)
- pájaro carpintero (“woodpecker”)
- pájaro de mal agüero
- pájaro del sol
- pájaro estaca
- pájaro moscón
- pájaro plomo
- pájaro vaco
- pajarón
- pajarraco (“ugly bird”)
- pata de pájaro
- pie de pájaro
- red de pájaros
- tener pájaros en la cabeza
Further reading
edit- “pájaro”, 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
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