# castaña
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin castanea.

### Noun

castaña f (plural castañes)
* chestnut (nut of the chestnut tree)

#### Related terms

* castañal
* castañéu
* castañu

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* castanha (Reintegrationist)

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kasˈtaɲa̝/

### Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)
* chestnut
** 1418, Sada / A Coruña, edited by Manuel Lucas Álvarez and Pedro Lucas Domínguez, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Ediciós do Castro, page 148:seys teegas de castanas secas et linpas et escolleytas dos cascõõs et do podresix measures of dry and clean chesnuts, free of dried ones and of rotten ones

### Adjective

castaña f sg
* feminine singular of castaño

#### Related terms

* Castañal
* Castañedo
* Castañeira
* Castañoso
* Casteda
* Castedo
* Castenda
* Castido
* Castiñeira
* Castiñeiras
* Castiñeiriño
* Castiñeiro
* castiñeiro
* Castiñeiros
* castiro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “castaña”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “castaña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “castaña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “castaña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish castanna, from Latin castanea, from Ancient Greek καστάνεια (kastáneia).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kasˈtaɲa/ [kasˈt̪a.ɲa]
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* Rhymes: -aɲa
* Syllabification: cas‧ta‧ña

### Noun

castaña f (plural castañas)
* chestnut
* (colloquial) strike, wallop (hard hit)
    Synonyms: torta, trastazo
* bun, chignon (haircut)
* (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:borrachera
* (colloquial) yawn (boring thing)
* (colloquial) piece of junk
* (colloquial) year (used in talking about ages)
    Synonym: año
    Tiene 40 castañasHe's 40 (years old)

#### Derived terms

* castaña de cajú
* castañuela
* castañuelo
* sacar las castañas del fuego

#### Related terms

* castañero
* castaño

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Spanish: castañeta
** → Czech: kastaněty
** → English: castanet
** → Estonian: kastanjett
** → French: castagnette
*** → Dutch: castagnet
*** → Norwegian Bokmål: kastanjett
*** → Norwegian Nynorsk: kastanjett
** → Finnish: kastanjetit
** → Hungarian: kasztanyetta
** → Irish: castainéid
** → Italian: castagnetta
** → Japanese: カスタネット
** → Macedonian: кастане́ти (kastanéti)
** → Polish: kastaniety
** → Romanian: castanietă
** → Russian: кастаньета (kastanʹjeta)
* → Cebuano: kastanyas (from the plural)
* → Tagalog: kastanyas (from the plural)

### Adjective

castaña
* feminine singular of castaño

### Further reading

* “castaño”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10