quijada

See also: Quijada

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quijada.

Noun

quijada (plural quijadas)

  1. jawbone (percussion instrument)
    • 2012, Yuna de Lannoy, “An Analysis of the Soundscape of Akira Kurosawa's Chambara Westerns”, in Kathryn Kalinak, editor, Music in the Western:
      In the rest of the film, along with drums, the quijada is used diegetically as well as non-diegetically to bridge transitions between scenes, working as a musical punctuation mark.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish quexada (cf. also quexar), from a Vulgar Latin *capseāta, derivative of *capseus (“chin”), itself a derivative of Latin capsa (“box”). Compare Portuguese and Galician queixada and queixo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kiˈxada/ [kiˈxa.ð̞a]
  • Rhymes: -ada
  • Syllabification: qui‧ja‧da

Noun

quijada f (plural quijadas)

  1. jaw, jawbone (of an animal)
    Synonym: (of humans) mandíbula
  2. jowl (meat)
  3. jawbone (musical instrument)

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