Noun: puñal
Gender: m
Hyphenation: pu‧ñal
| Singular m | puñal |
| Plural m | puñales |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like puñal
ionizador,
serbal,
serial,
serpol,
serval,
depurador,
sector,
sentir,
sensor,
senior,
sauzal,
sartal,
safrol,
santol,
saibey,
salmer,
urunday,
definidor,
cristóbal,
superconductor, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from a derivative of Latin pugna (“fight”), with the suffix -al. Or a shortening of older cuchillo (“knife”) puñal, deriving from the above word and meaning as big as a fist. Compare Portuguese punhal, Catalan punyal, Italian pugnale, French poignard, Romanian pumnal. See: Latin Nouns '
pugna', Portuguese Nouns '
punhal', Catalan Nouns '
punyal', Italian Nouns '
pugnale', French Nouns '
poignard', Romanian Nouns '
pumnal'.
Verbs referencing "puñal"
Galician Nouns
puñal, French Nouns
poignard, Italian Nouns
pugnale, Portuguese Nouns
punhal, Catalan Nouns
punyal.
Translations