almohada

Borrowed from Spanish almohada.

almoháda

1. cushion, pillow

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic مُخَدَّة (muḵadda), from Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda, “pillow”). Cognate with Asturian almuhada (“pillow”), Aragonese almada (“pillow”), Galician and Portuguese almofada (“pillow”), Leonese almugada, olmada (“pillow”).

• IPA^(key): /almoˈada/ [al.moˈa.ð̞a], (colloquial) /alˈmwada/ [alˈmwa.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: al‧mo‧ha‧da

almohada f (plural almohadas)

1. pillow (soft cushion used to support the head)

• → Hiligaynon: almohada
• → Paraguayan Guarani: aramboha
• → Tagalog: almowada, muhala

• “almohada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔalmoˈhada/ [ʔɐl.moˈhaː.d̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: al‧mo‧ha‧da

almohada (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎ᜔ᜋᜓᜑᜇ)

1. alternative form of almowada