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empollamiento

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Spanish

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Etymology

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empollar +‎ -miento

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /empoʝaˈmjento/ [ẽm.po.ʝaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /empoʎaˈmjento/ [ẽm.po.ʎaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /empoʃaˈmjento/ [ẽm.po.ʃaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /empoʒaˈmjento/ [ẽm.po.ʒaˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]

  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: em‧po‧lla‧mien‧to

Noun

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empollamiento f (plural empollamientos)

  1. incubation period
    • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 260:
      Para que los pollos se crien bien, la gente del campo acostumbra suspender sobre el nidal de la clueca, las cáscaras restantes del empollamiento.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)