navaja
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Vulgar Latin *navācla, from Latin novācula (“razor”), from Proto-Italic *(ks)nowātlā. Compare Portuguese navalha, Galician navalla.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]navaja f (plural navajas)
- razor
- pocketknife, penknife, jackknife
- 2021 April 26, Paula Chouza, Patricia Ortega Dolz, “La ministra Reyes Maroto recibe una carta con una navaja aparentemente ensangrentada”, in El País[1], retrieved 2021-04-26:
- El Ministerio de Industria ha recibido una carta dirigida a su titular, Reyes Maroto, con una navaja aparentemente ensangrentada, según ha confirmado este lunes el Ministerio del Interior.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- razor shell, razor clam (edible clam of genus Ensis)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]navaja f (plural navajas)
- female equivalent of navajo
Adjective
[edit]navaja f
Further reading
[edit]- “navaja”, 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
- navaja on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
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