pollastre

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pullaster, from pullus (“chicken”) + -aster (“wannabe”). Compare Occitan polastre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [puˈʎas.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [poˈʎas.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [poˈʎas.tɾe]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -astɾe

Noun

pollastre m (plural pollastres)

1. male chicken, specially when young
2. chicken meat

   Si el diumenge sobrava pollastre rostit, el dilluns o el dimarts per sopar croquetes de pollastre rostit.

   If there was leftover roast chicken on Sunday, then for supper Monday or Tuesday roast chicken croquettes.

Descendants

• → Spanish: pollastre

See also

• gall m
• gallina f
• poll m
• pollet m

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /polˈla.stre/
• Rhymes: -astre
• Hyphenation: pol‧là‧stre

Noun

pollastre f

1. plural of pollastra

Anagrams

• sportella

Spanish

Alternative forms

• pollastro

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan pollastre, from Latin pullastrum.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /poˈʝastɾe/ [poˈʝas.t̪ɾe]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /poˈʝastɾe/ [poˈʝas.t̪ɾe]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /poˈʎastɾe/ [poˈʎas.t̪ɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /poˈʃastɾe/ [poˈʃas.t̪ɾe]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /poˈʒastɾe/ [poˈʒas.t̪ɾe]

• Rhymes: -astɾe
• Syllabification: po‧llas‧tre

Noun

pollastre m (plural pollastres)

1. young chicken
2. whippersnapper

Further reading

• “pollastre”, 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