Noun: xiringa
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | xiringa |
| Plural f | xiringas |
Sample Sentences
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Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles. (The boys await for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip) [1911, F. Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terra, page 52:]
Nouns inflected like xiringa
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
from Medieval Latin sȳringa, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Cognate with Portuguese seringa and Spanish jeringa. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
σῦριγξ', Portuguese Nouns '
seringa', Spanish Nouns '
jeringa'.
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