empollamiento
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Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- 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
[edit]empollamiento f (plural empollamientos)
- 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)