piña

Borrowed from Spanish piña.

piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)

1. cloth woven from pineapple fiber
2. (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
3. (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.

• APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pian

• pinha (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲɐ]
• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Hyphenation: pi‧ña

piña f (plural piñas)

1. pinecone
2. pineapple
3. bunch (of grapes)

   Synonyms: acio, cacho

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “piña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “piña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
• “piña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]

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• Rhymes: -iɲa
• Syllabification: pi‧ña

Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.

piña f (plural piñas)

1. (botany) pinecone

   Synonyms: estróbilo, cono

2. pineapple

   Synonyms: ananá (Argentina, Uruguay), ananás

3. (figurative) close-knit group
   • 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):

     […] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. the core of the agave plant
5. (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male
6. (Peru, colloquial) bad luck

• → English: piña
• → Central Bikol: pinya
• → Cebuano: pinya
• → Hiligaynon: pinya
• → Tagalog: pinya

Back-formation from piñata.

piña f (plural piñas)

1. (Canary Islands, Rioplatense, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba) a punch

   Synonym: puñetazo

   1. (Dominican Republic, Argentina) fight
2. (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash

• “piña”, 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
• “piña”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es