jauría

See also: jauria

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Mozarabic hauriya (“kind of dance”), from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”). Doublet of corea. Or, possibly imitative.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xauˈɾia/ [xau̯ˈɾi.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: jau‧rí‧a

Noun

jauría f (plural jaurías)

1. pack (of hounds) (a group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together)
   • 2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País‎^[1]:

     De pronto, más de un centenar de chicos levantan las persianas de 34 habitaciones, encienden las luces y responden como jauría. “Uh, uh, uh”.

     Suddenly, more than a hundred boys raise the blinds of 34 rooms, turn on the lights and respond as a pack. "Uh uh uh".

See also

• rehala

Further reading

• “jauría”, 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
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN