querencia

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English

Etymology

From Spanish querencia.

Pronunciation

Noun

querencia (plural querencias)

  1. (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 332:
      Once hit, a rebel unit must be hit again, and remain hit; the army must penetrate the querencia where – like a fighting bull – it was at home, and stay there, driving it out into unknown and unfriendly territory.
    • 1994, Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing:
      The wolf paced and circled limping on three legs and then crouched by the iron stake where it seemed she’d made her querencia.
  2. (New Mexico) homesickness, nostalgia
    • 2022 May 5, Simon Romero, “‘Burning Down a Way of Life’: Wildfire Rips Through a Hispanic Bastion”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
      “We’ve lived there so long because of our querencia,” said Ms. Garcia, a term she defined as “a cultural longing, a pull, that keeps us there.”

Spanish

Etymology

From querer (“to want”) +‎ -encia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /keˈɾenθja/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /keˈɾensja/
  • (Spain) Rhymes: -enθja
  • (Latin America) Rhymes: -ensja
  • Syllabification: que‧ren‧cia

Noun

querencia f (plural querencias)

  1. longing, want
    Synonym: anhelo
  2. homesickness, nostalgia
    Synonyms: añoranza, morriña, nostalgia
  3. the homing instinct of an animal
  4. (bullfighting) the bull's querencia
  5. an animal's lair
    Synonyms: guarida, madriguera

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