cosquillas
See also: cosquillás
Spanish
Etymology
Compare Catalan cossigolles, Portuguese cosquinha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kosˈkiʝas/ [kosˈki.ʝas] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kosˈkiʎas/ [kosˈki.ʎas] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kosˈkiʃas/ [kosˈki.ʃas] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kosˈkiʒas/ [kosˈki.ʒas] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝas (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎas (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃas (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒas (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: cos‧qui‧llas
Noun
cosquillas f pl (plural only)
- tickling, tickle (feeling resembling the result of tickling)
- Synonyms: cosquilleo, (regional) coscas
Derived terms
Noun
cosquillas f pl
- plural of cosquilla
Verb
cosquillas
- second-person singular present indicative of cosquillar
Further reading
- “cosquillas”, 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