cuina

See also: cuinà

Catalan

 cuina on Catalan Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈkuj.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈkuj.na]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan coïna (with stress subsequently moved to the first vowel), from older cozina, from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna. Compare Occitan cosina.

Noun

cuina f (plural cuines)

1. kitchen
2. cookery, cuisine
3. cooker, stove

Derived terms

• alta cuina
• cuina americana

Related terms

• coure
• cuinar
• culinari

Etymology 2

Verb

cuina

1. inflection of cuinar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cuina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cuina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “cuina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cuina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

A Hispanicized feminine form of English queen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwina/ [ˈkwi.na]

• Audio (Costa Rica):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: cui‧na

Noun

cuina f (plural cuinas)

1. (usually informal, Costa Rica, Mexico) queen (playing card)

   Synonym: reina

References

• Miguel Ángel Quesada Pacheco (2007), Nuevo diccionario de costarriqueñismos, 4th edition, Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica, page 155

Further reading

• “cuina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024