chinchín
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Italian cincin. Compare Portuguese tchim-tchim, Catalan xinxin, French tchin-tchin.
Interjection
[edit]chinchín
Noun
[edit]chinchín m (plural chinchines)
Etymology 2
[edit]Apocopic form of chinchilín, from Nahuatl tzitzilinia (“ring, peal (of bells)”).
Noun
[edit]chinchín m (plural chinchines)
Further reading
[edit]- “chinchín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
- “chinchín”, 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
Categories:
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/in
- Rhymes:Spanish/in/2 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Italian
- Spanish terms derived from Italian
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish interjections
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish apocopic forms
- Spanish terms derived from Nahuatl
- Mexican Spanish
- Guatemalan Spanish
- Honduran Spanish
- Salvadorian Spanish