cuchilla
Spanish
Etymology
From cuchillo, inherited from Latin cultellus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈt͡ʃiʝa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /kuˈt͡ʃiʎa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /kuˈt͡ʃiʃa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /kuˈt͡ʃiʒa/ [kuˈt͡ʃi.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -iʝa (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- Rhymes: -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- Rhymes: -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)
- Rhymes: -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Syllabification: cu‧chi‧lla
Noun
cuchilla f (plural cuchillas)
- knife
- cleaver
- blade of a sword
- hogback
- gore (of a road)
- razor blade
- Synonym: razuradora
- (Rioplatense, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela) foothills
- Synonyms: piedemonte, lomada entrerriana
Related terms
Further reading
- “cuchilla”, 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