caballada
English
Etymology
Noun
caballada (plural caballadas)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kabaˈʝada/ [ka.β̞aˈʝa.ð̞a] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kabaˈʎada/ [ka.β̞aˈʎa.ð̞a] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kabaˈʃada/ [ka.β̞aˈʃa.ð̞a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kabaˈʒada/ [ka.β̞aˈʒa.ð̞a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -ada
- Syllabification: ca‧ba‧lla‧da
Noun
caballada f (plural caballadas)
- herd of horses
- 2015 December, “"Un buen deportista no se aburre nunca de ganar"”, in El Pais (Uruguay)[1]:
- En el polo los caballos son muy importantes porque el día que pensás que ya estás listo y no seguís invirtiendo en mejorar tu caballada, ahí va a empezar la cuesta abajo, porque se te van a empezar a lesionar tus yeguas buenas y tu nivel va a bajar.
- In polo, horses are very important because the day you think you are ready and stop investing in improving your herd, that is when the decline will begin, because your good mares will start to get injured and your level will drop.
Further reading
- “caballada”, 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