"chepa" meaning in Español

See chepa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈtʃe.pa] Forms: chepas [plural]
Rhymes: e.pa Etymology: Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').
  1. Curvatura anormal de la espalda, joroba, corcova, giba. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: es-chepa-es-noun-FzwqG4TR Categories (other): ES:Anatomía, ES:Términos coloquiales Topics: anatomy
  2. Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable. Tags: Colombia, Dominican-Republic, colloquial
    Sense id: es-chepa-es-noun-HfOcerIZ Categories (other): ES:Colombia, ES:República Dominicana, ES:Términos coloquiales
  3. Genitales externos (vagina y vulva) de la mujer. Tags: Ecuador, vulgar
    Sense id: es-chepa-es-noun-RQDPHOB6 Categories (other): ES:Ecuador, ES:Términos malsonantes
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.): carambola, cueva, chamba, chiripa, potra Related terms (Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.): chepazo

Noun

IPA: [ˈtʃe.pa] Forms: chepas [plural]
Rhymes: e.pa Etymology: Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').
  1. Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁. Tags: Spain, adjective, colloquial
    Sense id: es-chepa-es-noun-8yFUq7es Categories (other): ES:España, ES:Términos coloquiales
  2. Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia. Tags: Honduras
    Sense id: es-chepa-es-noun-Y8zseFx9 Categories (other): ES:Honduras
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.): cárcel, prisión Synonyms (Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.): cheposo, chepudo, corcovado, giboso, jorobado

Inflected forms

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  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras bisílabas",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras llanas",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras provenientes del aragonés",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Rimas:e.pa",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos femeninos",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Español",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').",
  "extra_sounds": {
    "acentuación": "llana",
    "longitud silábica": "bisílaba",
    "parónimos": "chepe, chepo, chapa, chipa, chopa, chupa"
  },
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chepas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "che-pa",
  "idioms": [
    {
      "sense": "persona indiscreta o chismosa (Venezuela, coloquial)",
      "word": "chepa candela"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Perderle el respeto.^([cita requerida])",
      "word": "subírsele a la chepa"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sustantivo femenino",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chepazo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Anatomía",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Términos coloquiales",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Curvatura anormal de la espalda, joroba, corcova, giba."
      ],
      "id": "es-chepa-es-noun-FzwqG4TR",
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Colombia",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:República Dominicana",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Términos coloquiales",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Armando Romero. La rueda de Chicago. Página 440. Editorial: Villegas Asociados. 2004. ISBN: 9789588160825.",
          "text": "Y esto se logró de pura chepa (como llamaban en su barrio de Cali al azar)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable."
      ],
      "id": "es-chepa-es-noun-HfOcerIZ",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "Colombia",
        "Dominican-Republic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Ecuador",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Términos malsonantes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Genitales externos (vagina y vulva) de la mujer."
      ],
      "id": "es-chepa-es-noun-RQDPHOB6",
      "sense_index": "3",
      "tags": [
        "Ecuador",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʃe.pa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "e.pa"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "carambola"
    },
    {
      "note": "Chile",
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "cueva"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chamba"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chiripa"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "potra"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine"
  ],
  "word": "chepa"
}

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras bisílabas",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras llanas",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Palabras provenientes del aragonés",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Rimas:e.pa",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos comunes en cuanto al género",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos femeninos",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "ES:Sustantivos masculinos",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Español",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').",
  "extra_sounds": {
    "acentuación": "llana",
    "longitud silábica": "bisílaba",
    "parónimos": "chepe, chepo, chapa, chipa, chopa, chupa"
  },
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chepas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "che-pa",
  "idioms": [
    {
      "sense": "persona indiscreta o chismosa (Venezuela, coloquial)",
      "word": "chepa candela"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Perderle el respeto.^([cita requerida])",
      "word": "subírsele a la chepa"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sustantivo masculino y femenino",
  "raw_tags": [
    "sin género"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:España",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Términos coloquiales",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁."
      ],
      "id": "es-chepa-es-noun-8yFUq7es",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "adjective",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "ES:Honduras",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia."
      ],
      "id": "es-chepa-es-noun-Y8zseFx9",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "tags": [
        "Honduras"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʃe.pa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "e.pa"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "cheposo"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "chepudo"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "corcovado"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "giboso"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "jorobado"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "cárcel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "prisión"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "chepa"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "ES:Palabras bisílabas",
    "ES:Palabras llanas",
    "ES:Palabras provenientes del aragonés",
    "ES:Rimas:e.pa",
    "ES:Sustantivos",
    "ES:Sustantivos femeninos",
    "Español"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').",
  "extra_sounds": {
    "acentuación": "llana",
    "longitud silábica": "bisílaba",
    "parónimos": "chepe, chepo, chapa, chipa, chopa, chupa"
  },
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chepas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "che-pa",
  "idioms": [
    {
      "sense": "persona indiscreta o chismosa (Venezuela, coloquial)",
      "word": "chepa candela"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Perderle el respeto.^([cita requerida])",
      "word": "subírsele a la chepa"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sustantivo femenino",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chepazo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "ES:Anatomía",
        "ES:Términos coloquiales"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Curvatura anormal de la espalda, joroba, corcova, giba."
      ],
      "sense_index": "1",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ES:Colombia",
        "ES:República Dominicana",
        "ES:Términos coloquiales"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              29
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "Armando Romero. La rueda de Chicago. Página 440. Editorial: Villegas Asociados. 2004. ISBN: 9789588160825.",
          "text": "Y esto se logró de pura chepa (como llamaban en su barrio de Cali al azar)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable."
      ],
      "sense_index": "2",
      "tags": [
        "Colombia",
        "Dominican-Republic",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ES:Ecuador",
        "ES:Términos malsonantes"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Genitales externos (vagina y vulva) de la mujer."
      ],
      "sense_index": "3",
      "tags": [
        "Ecuador",
        "vulgar"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʃe.pa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "e.pa"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "carambola"
    },
    {
      "note": "Chile",
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "cueva"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chamba"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "chiripa"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Suerte propicia, casualidad favorable.",
      "sense_index": "2",
      "word": "potra"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine"
  ],
  "word": "chepa"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "ES:Palabras bisílabas",
    "ES:Palabras llanas",
    "ES:Palabras provenientes del aragonés",
    "ES:Rimas:e.pa",
    "ES:Sustantivos",
    "ES:Sustantivos comunes en cuanto al género",
    "ES:Sustantivos femeninos",
    "ES:Sustantivos masculinos",
    "Español"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Del aragonés chepa ('jorobado').",
  "extra_sounds": {
    "acentuación": "llana",
    "longitud silábica": "bisílaba",
    "parónimos": "chepe, chepo, chapa, chipa, chopa, chupa"
  },
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chepas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "che-pa",
  "idioms": [
    {
      "sense": "persona indiscreta o chismosa (Venezuela, coloquial)",
      "word": "chepa candela"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Perderle el respeto.^([cita requerida])",
      "word": "subírsele a la chepa"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Español",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Sustantivo masculino y femenino",
  "raw_tags": [
    "sin género"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "ES:España",
        "ES:Términos coloquiales"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁."
      ],
      "sense_index": "4",
      "tags": [
        "Spain",
        "adjective",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ES:Honduras"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia."
      ],
      "sense_index": "5",
      "tags": [
        "Honduras"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈtʃe.pa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "e.pa"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "cheposo"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "chepudo"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "corcovado"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "giboso"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Persona que tiene joroba o chepa₁.",
      "sense_index": "4",
      "word": "jorobado"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "cárcel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "Lugar para encerrar a los condenados y procesados por la justicia.",
      "sense_index": "5",
      "word": "prisión"
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "feminine",
    "masculine"
  ],
  "word": "chepa"
}

Download raw JSONL data for chepa meaning in Español (4.2kB)

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