Noun: leña
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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A quem Deus quer bem, o vento lle apaña a leña (the wind collects the firewood of the ones well loved by God) [1555, Hernán Núñez, Refranes o proverbios en Romance:]
Nouns inflected like leña
metafísica,
serina,
quitamerendas,
míllaras,
orixinalidade,
mobilidade,
constitucionalidade,
terza feira,
auga doce,
fotosíntese,
glutamina,
barbas de raposo,
ximnasia,
crioloxía,
microbioloxía,
filoloxía,
petanca,
ELA,
gravitación,
quintaesencia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
13th century. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese lenha (“firewood”), from Latin ligna, plural of lignum (“log”). Compare Portuguese lenha. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
lenha', Old Portuguese Nouns '
lenha', Latin Nouns '
ligna', Portuguese Nouns '
lenha'.
Verbs referencing "leña"
Portuguese Nouns
lenha.
Translations