yaguasa

Spanish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝaˈɡwasa/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈɣ̞wa.sa]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /ʝaˈɡwasa/ [ɟ͡ʝaˈɣ̞wa.sa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ʃaˈɡwasa/ [ʃaˈɣ̞wa.sa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ʒaˈɡwasa/ [ʒaˈɣ̞wa.sa]

• Rhymes: -asa
• Syllabification: ya‧gua‧sa

Noun

yaguasa f (plural yaguasas)

1. whistling duck

   Synonyms: pato silbador, iguasa, sirirí, suirirí

Further reading

• “yaguasa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28