Noun: chicharra
Gender: f
Hyphenation: chi‧cha‧rra
| Singular f | chicharra |
| Plural f | chicharras |
Sample Sentences
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Entre las tupidas hojas de un árbol la chicharra chirriaba. (Among the dense leaves of a tree, the cicada was chirping.) [1905, La chicharra y la rana:]
Nouns inflected like chicharra
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Latin cicādader.
3. Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)ader.
4. Mozarabicbor.
5. Spanish *chicarra
6. Spanish chicharra
7. From an older *chicarra, borrowed from an unattested Mozarabic descendant of Vulgar Latin *cicār(r)a, from Latin cicāda. Doublet of cigarra, the native outcome. See: Latin Nouns '
cicāda'.
Verbs referencing "chicharra"
Galician Nouns
chicharra, Catalan Nouns
xitxarra.
Translations