"greña" meaning in All languages combined

See greña on Wiktionary

Noun [Spanish]

IPA: /ˈɡɾeɲa/, [ˈɡɾe.ɲa] Forms: greñas [plural]
Rhymes: -eɲa Etymology: Back-formation from Old Spanish greñon, from Medieval Latin grenniōnem, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”). Compare Middle Irish grend, Irish greann. Etymology templates: {{der|es|osp|greñon}} Old Spanish greñon, {{der|es|ML.|*grenniō|grenniōnem}} Medieval Latin grenniōnem, {{der|es|cel-pro|*grendo-||mustache, beard}} Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”), {{der|es|ine-pro|*gʰren-|t=facial hair}} Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”), {{cog|mga|grend}} Middle Irish grend, {{cog|ga|greann}} Irish greann Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} greña f (plural greñas)
  1. tangled mess of hair Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-greña-es-noun-H5yQrUJI Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Hair Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 58 42 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14 Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of Hair: 100 0
  2. entanglement Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-greña-es-noun-lhsWTyPr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: a la greña, agarrarse de las greñas, andar a la greña

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "a la greña"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "agarrarse de las greñas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "andar a la greña"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "osp",
        "3": "greñon"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Spanish greñon",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "*grenniō",
        "4": "grenniōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin grenniōnem",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*grendo-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "mustache, beard"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʰren-",
        "t": "facial hair"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mga",
        "2": "grend"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish grend",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "greann"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish greann",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Old Spanish greñon, from Medieval Latin grenniōnem, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”). Compare Middle Irish grend, Irish greann.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greñas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "greña f (plural greñas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gre‧ña"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "58 42",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "61 39",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Hair",
          "orig": "es:Hair",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "tangled mess of hair"
      ],
      "id": "en-greña-es-noun-H5yQrUJI",
      "links": [
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "entanglement"
      ],
      "id": "en-greña-es-noun-lhsWTyPr",
      "links": [
        [
          "entanglement",
          "entanglement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɾeɲa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡɾe.ɲa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɲa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greña"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/eɲa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/eɲa/2 syllables",
    "Spanish 2-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms derived from Medieval Latin",
    "Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish",
    "Spanish terms derived from Proto-Celtic",
    "Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "es:Hair"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "a la greña"
    },
    {
      "word": "agarrarse de las greñas"
    },
    {
      "word": "andar a la greña"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "osp",
        "3": "greñon"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Spanish greñon",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "*grenniō",
        "4": "grenniōnem"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin grenniōnem",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "cel-pro",
        "3": "*grendo-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "mustache, beard"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*gʰren-",
        "t": "facial hair"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "mga",
        "2": "grend"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish grend",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "greann"
      },
      "expansion": "Irish greann",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from Old Spanish greñon, from Medieval Latin grenniōnem, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *grendo- (“mustache, beard”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰren- (“facial hair”). Compare Middle Irish grend, Irish greann.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "greñas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "greña f (plural greñas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "gre‧ña"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "tangled mess of hair"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hair",
          "hair"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "entanglement"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "entanglement",
          "entanglement"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɾeɲa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈɡɾe.ɲa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-eɲa"
    }
  ],
  "word": "greña"
}

Download raw JSONL data for greña meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.