Spanish

spanish English es thumb|Dark blue = countries where Spanish is the language of the majority. Etymology en enm Spanisch, either an alteration of enm Spaynisch after foreign words for "Spain" or "Spanish" such as osp Espanna, osp espannol or a partial calque of them; equivalent to en Spain -ish. Sense of "licorice" derives from a local legend in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, where twigs that washed up onto the beaches from the wreckage of a galleon from the Spanish armada were found to be licorice roots. Pronunciation spăn'ĭsh, en /ˈspænɪʃ/ RP,GA en En-us-Spanish.ogg GA en ænɪʃ 2 en Span ish Adjective - Of or pertaining to Spain. en Spanish borders en 2005 J. P. Sullivan Martial, the unexpected classic 1 Whether Martial's heart was in the Spanish highlands or whether he was happy enough in Rome will be discussed later en Of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain. en European en Spanish cuisines en 1996 Oscar Zeta Acosta From Whence I Came Oscar "Zeta" Acosta: the uncollected works 42 Though she was Indian like the rest of us, she had a fine Spanish nose. en 2007 Lynette Rohrer Shirk The Everything Tapas and Small Plates Cookbook 1 Spanish cuisine is not as spicy hot as Mexican, but it is flavorful and bright. Of or pertaining to the Spanish language. en Indo-European en Spanish verbs en 1918 Julián Moreno-Lacalle Elements of Spanish Pronunciation 12 Fundamentally, the Spanish vowel sounds are only five, even though as a matter of fact there may be different other sounds for such vowels as [a], [e] and [o]. en US Canada informal nonstandard Of or pertaining to Hispanic people or their culture. Derived terms en Spanish mestizo Spanisher Spanishness Spanishy Spanish beard Black Spanish Ibero-Spanish New Spanish Sables-Spanish Rivers Second Spanish Republic Spanglish spanish Spanish America Spanish American Spanish-American War Spanish Armada Spanish athlete Spanish bayonet Spanish bean Spanish plum yellow Spanish plum Spanish black Spanish boot Spanish brown Spanish buckeye Spanish burton Spanish chalk Spanish champagne Spanish cherry Spanish chestnut Spanish clover Spanish cress Spanish cubit Spanish dagger Spanish dancer Spanish dancing Spanish dollar Spanish donkey Spanish elm Spanish Empire Spanish fever Spanish fir Spanish bluebell Spanish snail Spanish flag Spanish flu,Spanish Flu Spanish fly Spanish fox Spanish fury Spanish Game Spanish grass Spanish green Spanish Guinea Spanish ham Spanish handkerchief Spanish ibex Spanish Influenza Spanish influenza Spanish Inquisition Spanish iris Spanishise Spanishize Spanish jasmine Spanish juice Spanish lace Spanish Lake Spanish lavender Spanish lime Spanish line Spanishly Spanish lynx Spanish mackerel Spanish Main Spanish Mastiff Spanish mestiza Spanish moss Spanish nectarine Spanish needles Spanish Netherlands Spanish omelet Spanish omelette Spanish onion Spanish Opening Spanish oregano Spanish paprika Spanish Peaks Spanish pepper Spanish plume Spanish potato Spanish practices Spanish prisoner Spanish red Spanish reef Spanish rice Spanish Road Spanish Sahara Spanish sausage Spanish shame Spanish sheep Spanish Sign Language Spanish soap Spanish solution Spanish-speaking Spanish Springs Spanish studies Spanish Torture Spanish Town Spanish Virgin Islands Spanish walk Spanish wall Spanish Water Dog Spanish West Indies Spanish white Spanish windlass Spanish Yiddish swamp Spanish oak walk Spanish white Spanish broom Translations of or pertaining to Spain Afrikaans: af Spaans Albanian: sq spanjoll Antillean Creole: gcf pannyòl Arabic: ar إِسْبَانِيّ Armenian: hy իսպանական Asturian: ast español Azerbaijani: az ispan Basque: eu espainiar Belarusian: be іспа́нскі, be гішпа́нскі Taraškevica Bengali: bn স্পেনীয় Breton: br spagnol Bulgarian: bg испа́нски m Burmese: my စပိန် Carpathian Rusyn: rue шпанєльскый, rue іспа́ньскый Catalan: ca espanyol Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 西班牙 西班牙的 Xībānyá de Corsican: co spagnolu m Czech: cs španělský m Danish: da spansk Dutch: nl Spaans Esperanto: eo hispana Estonian: et hispaania Farefare: gur sɛpan Faroese: fo spanskur Finnish: fi espanjalainen French: fr espagnol Galician: gl español Georgian: ka ესპანური, ka ესპანეთის German: de spanisch Gujarati: gu સ્પેનિશ Haitian Creole: ht panyòl Hawaiian: haw Kepania Hebrew: he סְפָרַדִּי s'faradí Hindi: hi स्पेनीय, hi स्पॅनिश, hi स्पेनी, hi स्पैनिश, hi स्पेनिश Hungarian: hu spanyol Icelandic: is spænskur, is spánskur Indonesian: id Spanyol Interlingua: ia espaniol Irish: ga Spáinneach Italian: it spagnolo Japanese: ja スペイン スペインの Supein no Kashubian: csb szpańsczi Kazakh: kk испандық Khmer: km អេស្ប៉ាញ Korean: ko 스페인 ^스페인-의, ko 에스파냐 ^에스파냐-의, ko 에스빠냐 ^에스빠냐-의 North Korea Kyrgyz: ky испан Ladin: lld spanuel m Lao: lo ສະເປນ, lo ແອສປາໂຍລ Latin: la hispanicus Latvian: lv spāņu, lv spāniešu, lv spānisks Leonese: roa-leo hespañol Lithuanian: lt ispanų Luxembourgish: lb spuenesch Macedonian: mk шпански Malay: ms Sepanyol Maltese: mt Spanjol Māori: mi Pāniora Marathi: mr स्पॅनिश Middle English: enm Spanisch, enm Spaynisch Mongolian: mn испани Norwegian: Bokmål: nb spansk Nynorsk: nn spansk Occitan: oc espanhòl Old English: ang Ispānisċ Pashto: ps هسپانوي haspānawi, ps اسپانیایي aspānyāyi Persian: fa اسپانیایی espâniyâyi Polish: pl hiszpański Portuguese: pt espanhol Romanian: ro spaniol Russian: ru испа́нский Scots: sco Spainish, sco Spaingie Scottish Gaelic: gd Spàinneach Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh шпа̑нскӣ, sh шпа̀њо̄лскӣ Latin: sh špȃnskī, sh špànjōlskī Silesian: szl szpańelski Sinhalese: si ස්පාඤ්ඤ Slovak: sk španielsky Slovene: sl špánski Spanish: es español, es españolete Swedish: sv spansk Tagalog: tl Kastilain, tl Espanyol, tl Kastila Tajik: tg испанӣ Thai: th สเปน Tigrinya: ti ስጳኛዊ Turkish: tr İspanyol Turkmen: tk ispan Ukrainian: uk іспа́нський Urdu: ur ہسپانوی haspānvī Uyghur: ug ئىسپان Uzbek: uz ispan Venetan: vec spagnòƚo Vietnamese: vi Tây Ban Nha, vi Y Pha Nho obsolete Volapük: vo Spanyänik Yiddish: yi שפּאַניש of or pertaining to the people or culture of Spain Afrikaans: af Spaans Armenian: hy իսպանական Asturian: ast español Catalan: ca espanyol Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 西班牙 西班牙的 Xībānyá de, cmn 西班牙人 西班牙人的 xībānyárén de Esperanto: eo hispana Faroese: fo spanskur Finnish: fi espanjalainen Galician: gl español Georgian: ka ესპანური German: de spanisch Gujarati: gu સ્પેનિશ Hindi: hi स्पेनी, hi स्पैनिश, hi स्पेनिश, hi स्पॅनिश Irish: ga Spáinneach Latvian: lv spāņu, lv spāniešu, lv spānisks Malay: ms orang Sepanyol, ms Sepanyol Marathi: mr स्पॅनिश Middle English: enm Spanisch, enm Spaynisch Norwegian: Bokmål: nb spansk Nynorsk: nn spansk Polish: pl hiszpański Portuguese: pt espanhol, pt hispânico Romanian: ro spaniol Slovak: sk španielsky Slovene: sl špánski Spanish: es español, es españolete Swedish: sv spansk Turkish: tr İspanyol Venetan: vec spagnòƚo Volapük: vo Spanyänanik ♂♀, vo hi-Spanyänanik ♂, vo ji-Spanyänanik ♀, vo Spanyänanefik collective ♂♀, vo hi-Spanyänanefik collective ♂, vo ji-Spanyänanefik collective ♀ of or pertaining to the Spanish language Afrikaans: af Spaans Arabic: ar إسبانية Tunisian Arabic: aeb اِسْپَنْيُولْ espanyōl Armenian: hy իսպաներեն Asturian: ast español Breton: br spagnolek Catalan: ca espanyol, ca castellà Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 西班牙文 西班牙文的 xībānyáwén de, cmn 西班牙語 西班牙語的 xībānyáyǔ de Esperanto: eo hispana Faroese: fo spanskur Finnish: fi espanjankielinen French: fr espagnol m Galician: gl español Georgian: ka ესპანური German: de spanisch Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: gug karaiñe'ẽ Gujarati: gu સ્પેનિશ Hindi: hi स्पेनी, hi स्पैनिश, hi स्पेनिश, hi स्पॅनिश Ido: io Hispaniana Irish: ga Spáinnis Italian: it spagnolo, it castigliano Japanese: ja スペイン語 supeingo Latin: la hispanicus m, la hispanica f, la hispanicum n Latvian: lv spāņu, lv spāniešu, lv spānisks Malay: ms bahasa Sepanyol, ms Sepanyol Marathi: mr स्पॅनिश Nahuatl: Classical Nahuatl: nci Caxtīllān tlahtōlli Norwegian: Bokmål: nb spansk Nynorsk: nn spansk Polish: pl hiszpański Portuguese: pt espanhol, pt castelhano Romanian: ro spaniol Slovak: sk španielsky Slovene: sl špánski Spanish: es español, es castellano Swedish: sv spansk Tigrinya: ti ስጳንኛ Turkish: tr İspanyolca Venetan: vec spagnòƚo Volapük: vo Spanyänapükik Proper noun ~ es en Q1321en uncountable A Romance language primarily spoken in Spain and in the Americas. en Castilian en 1873 Frederick Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy 163 "If he speaks Spanish, my daughter can converse with him ; she has but shortly arrived from Spain." LXXXVI “You should read Spanish,” he said. “It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood.” en 1928 w:Otto Jespersen An International Language 48 Therefore in Novial, as well as in Esp-Ido, we simplify the spelling in all words containing double letters in the national languages, from which the words are taken: pasa (E pass, F passer), efekte, komun (F commun, E common), etc. In this we follow the beautiful example of Spanish, which writes pasar, efecto, común, etc., and even extend it to cases in which Spanish makes a distinction in sound and spelling, as with ll and rr: bel S bello, F belle, koresponda, S corresponder, etc. en 1995 Hanna Pishwa; Karl Maroldt The Development of Morphological Systematicity 146 In contrast with the creole languages discussed above, the article systems of Rumanian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese are more complex, since neutralization fails to occur to a large extent. en Rami Kaminski How Outsiders Can Thrive in a World That Wants Them to Fit In Next Big Idea Club https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/outsiders-can-thrive-world-wants-fit-bookbite/55990/ 2025-06-19 I call them otroverts—from otro, the Spanish word for “other,” and vertere, Latin for “to turn.” Otroverts are people who turn in a different direction: not inward like introverts, not outward like extroverts, but elsewhere. They turn toward something else entirely—independence, clarity, and observation. https://web.archive.org/web/20260823204210/https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/outsiders-can-thrive-world-wants-fit-bookbite/55990/ 23 August 2026 en The ability of a person to communicate in Spanish. Spanish language and literature as an object of study. en town p/Ontario c/Canada. Derived terms en Judaeo-Spanish,Judeo-Spanish,Judæo-Spanish Equatoguinean Spanish Belizean Spanish Philippine Spanish Old Spanish Translations Romance language of Spain and the Americas Afrikaans: af Spaans Albanian: sq gjuha spanjolle f Amharic: am እስፓንኛ Antillean Creole: gcf pannyòl Arabic: ar إِسْبَانِيَّة f Aragonese: an español m, an castellán m Aramaic: arc ܠܫܢܐ ܐܣܦܢܝܝܐ Armenian: hy իսպաներեն Asturian: ast castellanu m, ast español m Aymara: ay kastilla aru Azerbaijani: az ispan dili Basque: eu gaztelania, eu gaztelera Belarusian: be іспа́нская мо́ва f, be іспа́нская f Bengali: bn স্পেনীয় ভাষা Bikol: Central Bikol: bcl Espanyol Breton: br spagnoleg, br kastilhaneg Bulgarian: bg испа́нски m Catalan: ca castellà m, ca espanyol m Cebuano: ceb Espanyol, ceb Kinatsila Cherokee: chr ᏍᏆᏂ Chinese: Cantonese: yue 西班牙文 sai1 baan1 ngaa4 man4-2 Hakka: hak 西班牙語 sî-pân-ngà-ngî Hokkien: nan-hbl 西班牙語 Se-pan-gâ-gí Mandarin: cmn 西班牙語 xībānyáyǔ, cmn 西班牙文 xībānyáwén Chuvash: cv испан чӗлхи Cornish: kw Spaynek Corsican: co spagnolu m Crimean Tatar: crh İspan tili Czech: cs španělština Danish: da spansk Dhivehi: dv އިސްޕެނިޝް Dutch: nl Spaans n Esperanto: eo hispana, eo hispana lingvo Estonian: et hispaania, et hispaania keel Ewe: ee spangbe Extremaduran: ext luenga española f Farefare: gur Hispanne Faroese: fo spanskt n Finnish: fi espanja, fi espanjan kieli Franco-Provençal: frp castilyan French: fr espagnol m, fr castillan m Frisian: West Frisian: fy Spaansk n Friulian: fur lenghe spagnole f Galician: gl lingua castelá f, gl castelán m, gl español m Georgian: ka ესპანური ენა, ka ესპანური German: de Spanisch n Bavarian: bar Schbanisch n Greek: el ισπανικά n-p, el ισπανική γλώσσα Greenlandic: kl spaniamiutut, kl spanskisut Guarani: Paraguayan Guarani: gug karaiñe'ẽ Gujarati: gu સ્પેનિશ f Hawaiian: haw ʻōlelo haw Kepania Hebrew: he סְפָרַדִּית f s'faradít Hindi: hi स्पैनिश f, hi स्पेनी f, hi स्पेनिश f, hi स्पॅनिश f Hungarian: hu spanyol Icelandic: is spænska f, is spánska f, is kastilíska f Ido: io Hispaniana, io Hispana Ilocano: ilo pagsasao nga Espaniol Indonesian: id Spanyol, id bahasa Spanyol Interlingua: ia espaniol Inuktitut: iu ᓯᐸᐃᓂᑎᑐᑦ Irish: ga Spáinnis f Italian: it spagnolo m Japanese: ja スペイン語 スペインご, supeingo Javanese: jv basa Spanyol Kannada: kn ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನಿಷ್ ಭಾಷೆ Kapampangan: pam castila Kazakh: kk испан тілі Korean: ko 스페인어 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr spanî Kyrgyz: ky испанча Ladino: lad lingua kastilyana f Latin: la lingua Hispanica f, la lingua Castillana f Latvian: lv spāņu valoda f, lv spāņu Ligurian: lij lengua spagnòlla f Limburgish: li Späönsj Lingala: ln Lispanyoli Lithuanian: lt ispanų, lt ispanų kalba Lombard: lmo spagnö Low German: Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl Spaans German Low German: nds-de Spaansch n Luxembourgish: lb Spuenesch n Macedonian: mk шпански јазик m Malagasy: mg fiteny espaniola Malay: ms bahasa Sepanyol Malayalam: ml സ്പാനിഷ്‌ ഭാഷ Maltese: mt lingwa Spanjola Manx: gv Spaainish Māori: mi reo Pāniora, mi reo Pāniora Marathi: mr स्पॅनिश Mingrelian: xmf ესპანური ნინა Mongolian: mn испани хэл Nahuatl: nah caxtillāntlahtōlli Navajo: nv Naakaii bizaad Nepali: ne स्पेनी भाषा Niuean: niu vagahau Sepania Norman: nrf Espangno m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb spansk m Nynorsk: nn spansk m Occitan: oc espanhòl m Old English: ang Spēonisċ n Ossetian: os испайнаг ӕвзаг Persian: fa اسپانیایی espâniyâyi Piedmontese: pms lenga spagneula f Polish: pl język hiszpański m-in, pl hiszpańszczyzna f Portuguese: pt espanhol m, pt castelhano m Q'eqchi: kek kaxlan aatin Quechua: Ecuadorian Kichwa: qu kastilla shimi, qu mishu shimi Southern Quechua: qu kastilla simi Romanian: ro spaniolă f Romansh: rm lingua spagnola f Russian: ru испа́нский язы́к m, ru испа́нский m Sami: Northern Sami: se spánskagiella Samoan: sm gagana spaniolo Samogitian: sgs ėspanu kalba Sardinian: sc ispagnolu m Scots: sco Spainish, sco Spaingie Scottish Gaelic: gd Spàinntis Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh шпа̑нскӣ, sh шпа̀њо̄лскӣ, sh шпански језик m Latin: sh špȃnskī, sh špànjōlskī, sh španski jezik m Sicilian: scn spagnolu m Sinhalese: si ස්පාඤ්ඤ, si ස්පාඤ්ඤ භාෂාව Slovak: sk španielsky, sk španielčina Slovene: sl špánščina f Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: hsb Španišćina Spanish: es español m, es castellano m Swahili: sw Kihispania Swazi: ss sipanishi Swedish: sv spanska c Tagalog: tl Espanyol, tl Kastila, tl Kastelyano Tajik: tg забони испанӣ, tg испанӣ Talysh: tly Ispani zyvon Tamil: ta எசுப்பானிய மொழி Tetum: tet lia-español Thai: th ภาษาสเปน paa-sǎa sà-bpeen Tigrinya: ti ስጳንኛ Turkish: tr İspanyolca Turkmen: tk Ispança Ukrainian: uk іспа́нський Urdu: ur ہسپانی haspānī Uyghur: ug ئىسپانچە Uzbek: uz ispancha Venetan: vec łéngoa spagnoła f, vec spagnòƚo m Vietnamese: vi tiếng Tây Ban Nha, vi tiếng Y Pha Nho obsolete Volapük: vo Spanyänapük Walloon: wa espagnol Waray-Waray: war kinatsila nga yinaknan Welsh: cy Sbaeneg West Flemish: vls Spoans Yakut: sah испан тыла Yiddish: yi שפּאַניש n Zulu: zu IsiSpanish See also es :Category:Spanish lemmas Noun ~ * + en collective _ in the plural The people of Spain, collectively; Spaniards. en 1976 Robert Rézette The Spanish Enclaves in Morocco 62 The Spanish are not the only ones selling their goods along the wharves and the inner streets. en uncountable Spanish cuisine; traditional Spanish food. en US informal nonstandard collective _ in the plural People of Hispanic origin; one whose first language is Spanish. en 1970 Henry Sioux Johnson; William J. Hernández-Martinez Educating the Mexican American 87 Sixty-four percent more Spanish are functionally illiterate compared to Anglos in Lubbock (only 15 percent more of nonwhites than Anglos). en UK slang obsolete uncountable money.money en 1873 John Camden Hotten The Slang Dictionary https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42108/42108-h/42108-h.htm#:~:text=a%20pig%3B%20sixpence%2E-,Spanish,-%2C%20money%2E%20Probably en 1797 Frederic Reynolds Reynolds' Plays 13 Jack Ar. I must come back to father — and what then? — he won't give me the Spanish.Project. The Spanish! — now what the devil's that?Jack Ar. Why, ready money, not credit or paper. en Northern England colloquial uncountable licorice. en uncountable historical A mixture of ash and cinders added to bricks before firing them, to cause ignition and reduce fuel usage. Synonyms people of Spain Spaniards people of Hispanic origin Hispanics Translations people of Spain, collectively Afrikaans: af Spanjaarde p Chinese: Cantonese: yue 西班牙人 sai1 baan1 ngaa4 jan4 Mandarin: cmn 西班牙人 xībānyárén Esperanto: eo hispanoj Finnish: fi espanjalaiset p Galician: gl españois m-p Georgian: ka ესპანელები German: de Spanier m-p Hindi: hi स्पेनी, hi स्पैनिश, hi स्पेनिश, hi स्पॅनिश Japanese: ja スペイン人 スペインじん, supeinjin Kazakh: kk испаниялық Norwegian: Bokmål: nb spanjolene m-p Nynorsk: nn spanjolane m-p Polish: pl Hiszpanie nv-p Portuguese: pt espanhóis m-p Romanian: ro spanioli m-p Russian: ru испанец m-p испа́нцы Spanish: es españoles m-p, es españoletes m-p Swedish: sv spanjorerna c-p Venetan: vec spagnòƚi m-p Volapük: vo Spanyänanef collective ♂♀, vo hi-Spanyänanef collective ♂, vo ji-Spanyänanef collective ♀, vo Spanyänans ♂♀, vo hi-Spanyänans ♂, vo ji-Spanyänans ♀ people of Hispanic origin Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 西班牙裔 西班牙裔人 xībānyáyì rén Galician: gl hispano m Polish: pl Hiszpanie nv-p Romanian: ro hispanic m, ro hispanică f Spanish: es hispano m, es hispana f Breton: br spagnol m, br spagnoleg Emilian: egl spagnôl m References Further reading 1 es spa spa Anagrams en ahinpss phasins en Languages Nationalities Spain Spanish