zumaya

See also: Zumaya

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θuˈmaʝa/ [θuˈma.ʝa]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /suˈmaʝa/ [suˈma.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America, Philippines) /suˈmaʝa/ [suˈma.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /suˈmaʃa/ [suˈma.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /suˈmaʒa/ [suˈma.ʒa]

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• Rhymes: -aʝa
• Syllabification: zu‧ma‧ya

Noun

zumaya f (plural zumayas)

1. (Andalusia) screech owl
   • 1927, Federico García Lorca, “Romance de la luna, luna”, in Romancero Gitano:

     Cómo canta la zumaya / ¡ay, cómo canta en el árbol!

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “zumaya”, 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