araña

From Latin arānea. Compare roña.

araña f (plural arañes)

1. spider

• aranha (reintegrationist)

From Old Galician-Portuguese aranna (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin arānea. Probably a doublet of raña.

Cognate with Portuguese aranha and Spanish araña.

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa̝/

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider
   • 1348, J. Méndez Pérez & al. (eds.), El monasterio de San Salvador de Chantada, Santiago de Compostela: I. Padre Sarmiento, page 327:

     a vida deste mundo non he mays que a tea da aranna que tanto que a tange alguna coussa, logo he quebrantada

     the life in this world is but the web of the spider, that breaks as soon as something touches it

2. (figurative) a slow worker

• arañeira
• tea de araña

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “aranna”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “aranna”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “araña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (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), “araña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “araña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “araña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From Spanish araña and Portuguese aranha and Kabuverdianu aranha .

araña

1. spider

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɲa/ [aˈɾa.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -aɲa
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧ña

Inherited from Old Spanish aranna, from Latin arānea (compare French araignée, Catalan aranya, Portuguese aranha), from arāneus (“spider”). Probably a doublet of roña.

araña f (plural arañas)

1. spider

   Hypernym: arácnido

2. chandelier

• arañar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

araña

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

• “araña”, 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