mierda
English
Usage notes
- Usually italicized as a foreign word.
Aragonese
References
- Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “mierda”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmjeɾda/, [ˈmjeɾ.ð̞a]
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish mierda, from Latin merda, from Proto-Italic *(s)merdā, from Proto-Indo-European *smerd-h₂- (“stench”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmjeɾda/ [ˈmjeɾ.ð̞a]
Audio (Peru): (file) - Rhymes: -eɾda
- Syllabification: mier‧da
Noun
mierda f (plural mierdas)
- (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.)
- (vulgar) shit
- ¡Vete a la mierda!
- Go to hell!
- (literally, “Go to shit”)
- ¡Tu hombre [no] vale mierda! ("no" is optional)
- Your man isn't worth shit!
- Odio este pueblucho de mierda
- I hate this shitty little town
- (vulgar) drunkenness
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
Derived terms
Interjection
¡mierda!
Further reading
- “mierda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- "mierda" at Oxford Dictionaries
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