melladura

Spanish

Etymology

mellar +‎ -dura

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /meʝaˈduɾa/ [me.ʝaˈð̞u.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /meʝaˈduɾa/ [me.ʝaˈð̞u.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /meʎaˈduɾa/ [me.ʎaˈð̞u.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /meʃaˈduɾa/ [me.ʃaˈð̞u.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /meʒaˈduɾa/ [me.ʒaˈð̞u.ɾa]

• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: me‧lla‧du‧ra

Noun

melladura f (plural melladuras)

1. nick, dent
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 190:

     Las melladuras que el látigo hacía en el crucifijo

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “melladura”, 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