cigüeñal
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Spanish
Etymology
From cigüeña (“stork”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θiɡweˈɲal/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siɡweˈɲal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: ci‧güe‧ñal
Noun
cigüeñal m (plural cigüeñales)
- crankshaft
- shadoof (device used to gather water)
Further reading
- “cigüeñal”, 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
cigüeñal on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es
