araña – Galician noun declension

Galician noun forms of araña

Noun: araña
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular faraña
Plural farañas

Sample Sentences

  • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327 (the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it)

Etymology

1. From Old Galician-Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.
2. Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'aranna', Latin Nouns 'arānea', Portuguese Nouns 'aranha', Spanish Nouns 'araña'.

Verbs referencing "araña"

Portuguese Nouns aranha.

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