gavilla
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈbiʝa/ [ɡaˈβ̞i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈbiʎa/ [ɡaˈβ̞i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈbiʃa/ [ɡaˈβ̞i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /ɡaˈbiʒa/ [ɡaˈβ̞i.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: ga‧vi‧lla
Noun
gavilla f (plural gavillas)
- sheaf
- mob
- 2016 July, “Diálogo y tupamaros”, in El Nacional[1]:
- En lugar de sus maestros, toparon con una gavilla que no solo los despojó a la fuerza de sus útiles escolares, sino también de la ropa que vestían.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (heraldry) garb
Derived terms
Further reading
- “gavilla”, 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