zaguán – Spanish noun declension

Spanish noun forms of zaguán

Noun: zaguán
Gender: m Hyphenation: za‧guán
Singular mzaguán
Plural mzaguanes

Sample Sentences

  • Una de las caras libres da a un angosto zaguán, que desemboca en otra galería, idéntica a la primera y a todas. A izquierda y a derecha del zaguán hay dos gabinetes minúsculos. (One of the free plots faces a narrow vestibule, which leads into another gallery, identical to the first one and to all of them. To the left and right of the vestibule there are two little cabinets.) [1956 [1944], Jorge Luis Borges, “La biblioteca de Babel”, in Ficciones, Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, page 85:]
  • Solo encontré borrachos que me ignoraron y sombras que al pasar se ocultaban en los inmensos zaguanes de la avenida Medvedsita. (I only found drunkards who ignored me and shadows that hid in the huge hallways of Medvedsita Avenue as they passed.) [1997, Roberto Bolaño, “La nieve”, in Llamadas telefónicas [Last Evenings on Earth]:]

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic إِسْطِوَان (ʔisṭiwān), from Arabic أُسْطُوَانَة (ʔusṭuwāna, “pillar”).

Verbs referencing "zaguán"

Portuguese Nouns saguão, English Nouns zaguan.

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