cabellera

Catalan

Etymology

From cabell +‎ -era.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kə.βəˈʎe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kə.bəˈʎe.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ka.beˈʎe.ɾa]

Noun

cabellera f (plural cabelleres)

1. head of hair
2. mane (longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal)

   Synonym: crinera

3. (astronomy) tail (the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind)

Further reading

• “cabellera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cabellera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cabellera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cabellera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kabeˈʝeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʝe.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kabeˈʝeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʝe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /kabeˈʎeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʎe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kabeˈʃeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʃe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kabeˈʒeɾa/ [ka.β̞eˈʒe.ɾa]

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: ca‧be‧lle‧ra

Etymology

From cabello +‎ -era.

Noun

cabellera f (plural cabelleras)

1. hair, head of hair
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 57:

     En la ya nombrada laguna de Aculeo, se dice también que hay encantada una princesa, a cual se le ha visto peinar con peine de oro las áureas hebras de su admirable cabellera.

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2. (astronomy) tail (the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind)

Further reading

• “cabellera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28