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Translingual
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Noun
[edit]sierra
- Alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra, "saw," referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra (countable and uncountable, plural sierras)
- A rugged range of mountains.
- Meronym: sawback
- Holonym: cordillera
- (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- A scombroid fish.
- (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
- 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:
- Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.
Derived terms
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[edit]Aragonese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra f (plural sierras)
References
[edit]- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “sierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra f (plural sierres)
- saw (tool)
Related terms
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra f (plural sierras)
Further reading
[edit]- “sierra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra f (invariable)
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -era
- Syllabification: sie‧rra
- Homophone: (Latin America) cierra
Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]sierra f (plural sierras)
- saw (tool)
- mountain range
- Sierra Madre Occidental
- Western Mother Mountain Range
- sawfish
- (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)
Derived terms
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[edit]- → English: sierra
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]sierra
- inflection of serrar:
Further reading
[edit]- “sierra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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