estraño

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See also: estrañó

Asturian

Verb

estraño

  1. first-person singular present indicative of estrañar

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese estraño (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin extraneus. Doublet of estranxeiro.

Cognate with Portuguese estranho and Spanish extraño.

Pronunciation

Adjective

estraño (feminine estraña, masculine plural estraños, feminine plural estrañas)

  1. weird, odd, peculiar
    Synonym: raro
  2. strange; foreign
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 170:
      viasse em terra estraya et el estrayo
      he saw himself a stranger in a strange land

Noun

estraño m (plural estraños)

  1. stranger; foreigner, outsider
    • c. 1300, R. Martínez López, editor, General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV, Oviedo: Publicacións de Archivum, page 170:
      viasse em terra estraya et el estrayo
      he saw himself a stranger in a strange land

References

Spanish

Adjective

estraño (feminine estraña, masculine plural estraños, feminine plural estrañas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of extraño.