pasamontañas
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Spanish
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Etymology
[edit]Verb-object compound, composed of pasa (“to pass”) + montañas (“mountains”).
Noun
[edit]pasamontañas m (plural pasamontañas)
- balaclava
- Synonym: papahígo
- plural of pasamontaña
Further reading
[edit]- “pasamontañas”, 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