melladura
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /meʝaˈduɾa/ [me.ʝaˈð̞u.ɾa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /meʎaˈduɾa/ [me.ʎaˈð̞u.ɾa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /meʃaˈduɾa/ [me.ʃaˈð̞u.ɾa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /meʒaˈduɾa/ [me.ʒaˈð̞u.ɾa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
- Rhymes: -uɾa
- Syllabification: me‧lla‧du‧ra
Noun
melladura f (plural melladuras)
- nick, dent
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 190:
- Las melladuras que el látigo hacía en el crucifijo
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “melladura”, 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