pandilla
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /panˈdiʝa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪i.ʝa] (Equatorial Guinea, most of Spain and Latin America)
- IPA(key): /panˈdiʎa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪i.ʎa] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
- IPA(key): /panˈdiʃa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪i.ʃa] (Buenos Aires and environs)
- IPA(key): /panˈdiʒa/ [pãn̪ˈd̪i.ʒa] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)
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- 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: pan‧di‧lla
Noun
pandilla f (plural pandillas)
- (collective) gang
- Synonym: mara
- 2021 July 14, Juan Sanguino, “Curvas y músculos pero nada de sexo: por qué los héroes de Hollywood han abrazado el celibato”, in El País[1], retrieved 15 July 2021:
- En cuanto Disney absorbió Marvel en 2012, los Vengadores se convirtieron en una pandilla célibe.
- As soon as Disney took over Marvel in 2012, the Avengers became a celibate gang.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Portuguese: pandilha
Further reading
- “pandilla”, 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
- pandilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia