jauría
See also: jauria
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibly derived from Arabic حَُرِيَ (ḥauriya, “kind of dance”), from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”).[1] Or, possibly onomatopoeic.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]jauría f (plural jaurías)
- pack (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
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “jauría”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, pages 501–502
Further reading
[edit]- “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
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