media naranja

Spanish

Etymology

Literally, “half orange”. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌmedja naˈɾanxa/ [ˌme.ð̞ja naˈɾãŋ.xa]
  • Syllabification: me‧dia na‧ran‧ja

Noun

media naranja f (plural medias naranjas)

  1. (idiomatic, colloquial) better half, significant other
    • 2013, Juan E. Huegel, El Matrimonio: ¿Desde la caída o desde la cruz?: La imagen de Dios en las relaciones matrimoniales, Palibrio, →ISBN, page 11:
      Entonces un hermano trató de resumir lo que se estaba discutiendo con la siguiente analogía: “Hay la idea popular que en el matrimonio cada uno de nosotros es como una media naranja que busca la mitad que le hace falta para completar su naranja y cuando la encontramos decimos con gusto, ‘Ya encontré mi media naranja’.
      Then a brother tried to summarize what was being discussed with the following analogy: "There is a popular idea that in marriage each one of us is like half of an orange who looks for the half that is missing in order to complete their orange, and when we find it we say with pleasure, 'I've found my other half’.

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