jimagua
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
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Adjective
[edit]jimagua m or f (masculine and feminine plural jimaguas)
Noun
[edit]jimagua m or f by sense (plural jimaguas)
- (Caribbean) twin
- 2015 October 14, “Opinión”, in El País[1]:
- Las hermanas Díaz son jimaguas, que es como llaman en Cuba a los mellizos, y al tomar el nombre de Ibeyi parecen haber buscado protección de las divinidades.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “jimagua”, 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
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