gallina

Inherited from Latin gallīna.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʎina/ [ɡaˈʎi.na]
• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ga‧lli‧na

gallina f (plural gallines)

1. hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))

   Synonym: pita

• galina (Mallorca)

Inherited from Old Catalan gallina, from Latin gallīna. Compare Occitan galina, Old French jeline, Spanish gallina.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ɡəˈʎi.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ɡaˈʎi.na]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -ina

gallina f (plural gallines)

1. hen

gallina m or f (masculine and feminine plural gallines)

1. cowardly

• lloca

• “gallina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “gallina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “gallina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “gallina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• ghjaddina, ghjallina

From Latin gallīna.

gallina f (plural galline)

1. hen

• “gallina” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Latin gallīna.

• IPA^(key): /ɡalˈli.na/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Hyphenation: gal‧lì‧na

gallina f (plural galline, masculine gallo)

1. hen

• alligna

From gallus (“rooster”) + -īna.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɡalˈliː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ɡalˈliː.na]

gallīna f (genitive gallīnae); first declension

1. hen (female chicken)

   Anatum ōva gallīnīs saepe suppōnimus.

   We often place the eggs of ducks under hens.

First-declension noun.

• “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "gallina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “gallina”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gallina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallīna.

• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ga‧lli‧na

gallina f (plural gallinas, masculine gallo, masculine plural gallos)

1. hen
2. (colloquial) chicken (coward)

   Synonyms: cagado, cagón, cagueta, cobarde

   • 2022, Pedro Arizpe, Puerto Jerez‎^[1] (webcomic):

     ¡Ya pues, no te asomes! Queda claro que eres bien gallina...

     Okay, fine! Don't look outside. It's clear you're a big chicken...

• “gallina”, 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