Noun: hembra
Gender: f
Hyphenation: hem‧bra
| Singular f | hembra |
| Plural f | hembras |
Sample Sentences
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"Tenés sábados, hembras y televisores / Tenés días para andar aún sin los pantalones." / No preguntes más! (You have Saturdays, women, and televisions / You have days when you can go without even wearing pants / Don't ask any more questions!) [1974, “Instituciones”, in Pequeñas anécdotas sobre las instituciones, performed by Sui Generis:]
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Qué bonito es Badalona / Con sus viejos y sus niños / Con sus hembras y sus hombres (How pretty is Badalona / With its old and its young / With its women and its men) [1978, Joan Manuel Serrat, “Qué bonito es Badalona”:]
Nouns inflected like hembra
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
Inherited from Old Spanish femna, fembra, from Latin fēmina (“female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Doublet of fémina, which is a direct borrowing. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
femna', Old Spanish Nouns '
femna', Latin Nouns '
fēmina'.
Verbs referencing "hembra"
English Nouns
hembra, Galician Nouns
femia, Portuguese Nouns
fêmea.
Translations