piña

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pina"

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish piña.

Noun

piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)

1. cloth woven from pineapple fiber
2. (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
3. (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.

Translations

cloth

Finnish: ananashamppu

Anagrams

• APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pian

Galician

Alternative forms

• pinha (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Hyphenation: pi‧ña

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

1. pinecone
2. pineapple
3. bunch (of grapes)

   Synonyms: acio, cacho

Derived terms

• piñeiro

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “piña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “piña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Syllabification: pi‧ña

Noun

piña f (plural piñas)

1. (botany) pinecone

   Synonyms: estróbilo, cono

2. pineapple

   Synonyms: ananá (Argentina, Uruguay), ananás

3. (Canary Islands, Rioplatense, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba) a punch

   Synonym: puñetazo

   1. (Dominican Republic, Argentina) fight
4. (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
5. (figurative) close-knit group
   • 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):

     […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

6. the core of the agave plant
7. (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male
8. (Peru, colloquial) bad luck

Derived terms

• apiñar
• piña colada
• piñal
• piñata
• piñazo
• piñón

Related terms

• pino

Descendants

• → English: piña
• → Bikol Central: pinya
• → Cebuano: pinya
• → Hiligaynon: pinya
• → Tagalog: pinya

Further reading

• “piña”, 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
• “piña”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es