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Spanish
Etymology
Possibly from Mozarabic hauriya (“kind of dance”), from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”). Doublet of corea. Or, possibly imitative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xauˈɾia/
- Rhymes: -ia
- Syllabification: jau‧rí‧a
Noun
jauría f (plural jaurías)
- pack (of hounds) (a group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together)
2022 October 9, Manuel Viejo, Elisa Silió, “El difícil camino para que no se repitan los gritos del Ahuja: “Sois unas pedazo de mierdas. ¡Putas!””, in El País:De pronto, más de un centenar de chicos levantan las persianas de 34 habitaciones, encienden las luces y responden como jauría. “Uh, uh, uh”.- Suddenly, more than a hundred boys raise the blinds of 34 rooms, turn on the lights and respond as a pack. "Uh uh uh".
See also
Further reading
- “jauría”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN