mejana

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mejana

feminine singular of mejan

Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mediāna (“middle”), but via Aragonese or Catalan (cf. mitjana).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meˈxana/ [meˈxa.na]
Rhymes: -ana
Syllabification: me‧ja‧na

Noun

mejana f (plural mejanas)

an islet in a river; an eyot

References

Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “majano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

Further reading

“mejana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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