collalba
Spanish
Etymology
From cuello (“neck”) + albo (“white”) + -a (feminine ending).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈʝalba/ [koˈʝal.β̞a] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /koˈʎalba/ [koˈʎal.β̞a] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /koˈʃalba/ [koˈʃal.β̞a] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /koˈʒalba/ [koˈʒal.β̞a] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -alba
- Syllabification: co‧llal‧ba
Noun
collalba f (plural collalbas)
- wheatear
- 2015 September 20, ““¡Águila pescadora sobre tu cabeza!””, in El País[1]:
- En la isla de Buda, yo estaba ya tan integrado -sobre todo al hallar una muda de culebra bastarda, no decir tonterías y repartir caramelos del hotel- que Shirihai me confesó su amor por las collalbas y petreles, “el ave que más hace latir mi corazón”.
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Further reading
- “collalba”, 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