# gallina
## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin gallīna.

### Noun

gallina f (plural gallines)
* hen (female bird (i.e. chicken))
    Synonym: pita

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* galina (Mallorca)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gallina, from Latin gallīna. Compare Occitan galina, Old French jeline, Spanish gallina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ɡəˈʎi.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ɡaˈʎi.na]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ina

### Noun

gallina f (plural gallines)
* hen

#### Derived terms

* carn de gallina
* gallina cega
* gallinaire
* gallinassa
* gallinejar
* galliner

### Adjective

gallina m or f (masculine and feminine plural gallines)
* cowardly

### See also

* lloca

### References

* “gallina” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “gallina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “gallina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “gallina” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Corsican
### Alternative forms

* ghjaddina, ghjallina

### Etymology

From Latin gallīna.

### Noun

gallina f (plural galline)
* hen

### References

* “gallina” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin gallīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡalˈli.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ina
* Hyphenation: gal‧lì‧na

### Noun

gallina f (plural galline, masculine gallo)
* hen

#### Derived terms

* andare a letto con le galline
* gallina d’acqua
* gallina faraona
* gallina ovaiola
* gallina prataiola
* latte di gallina
* raspatura di gallina
* zampe di gallina

#### Related terms

* galletto
* gallinaccio
* gallinaceo
* gallinaio
* gallinella
* gallinetta
* gallinona

### Anagrams

* alligna

## Latin
### Etymology

From gallus (“rooster”) +‎ -īna.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ɡalˈliː.na/, [ɡälˈlʲiːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ɡalˈli.na/, [ɡälˈliːnä]

### Noun

gallīna f (genitive gallīnae); first declension
* hen (female chicken)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* gallīnāceus
* gallīnārium
* gallīnārius

#### Descendants

* Balkano-Romance:
** Aromanian: gãljinã
** Istro-Romanian: gălirĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: găľină
** Romanian: găină
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Corsican: gallina, ghjaddina, ghjallina
** Dalmatian: galaina
** Italian: gallina
** Sicilian: gaddina, jaddina
** Venetan: gaƚina
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: gjaline
** Ladin: gialina
** Romansch: giaglina (Rumantsch Grischun), gagliegna, gaglina
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: gaina
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: gallina
** Old French: geline
*** French: géline
*** Franc-Comtois: dgelène
*** Norman: gelène
*** Picard: glinne, glaine
**** Amiénois: glangne
** Old Occitan: galina, galinha
*** Occitan: galina
* Ibero-Romance:
** Asturian: gallina
** Old Galician-Portuguese: galinha
*** Galician: galiña
*** Portuguese: galinha (see there for further descendants)
** Spanish: gallina

### References

* “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “gallina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* gallina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* gallina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “gallina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin gallīna.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaˈʝina/ [ɡaˈʝi.na]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /ɡaˈʝina/ [ɡaˈʝi.na]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /ɡaˈʎina/ [ɡaˈʎi.na]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /ɡaˈʃina/ [ɡaˈʃi.na]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ɡaˈʒina/ [ɡaˈʒi.na]
* Rhymes: -ina
* Syllabification: ga‧lli‧na

### Noun

gallina f (plural gallinas, masculine gallo, masculine plural gallos)
* hen
* (colloquial) chicken (coward)
    Synonyms: cagado, cagón, cagueta, cobarde
** 2022, Pedro Arizpe, Puerto Jerez‎ (webcomic):¡Ya pues, no te asomes! Queda claro que eres bien gallina...Okay, fine! Don't look outside. It's clear you're a big chicken...

#### Derived terms

* ají de gallina
* caldo de gallina
* cantar la gallina
* carne de gallina
* cólera de las gallinas
* como gallina en corral ajeno
* cuero de gallina
* echar una gallina
* gallina ciega
* gallina de agua
* gallina de Castilla
* gallina de Guinea
* gallina de la sierra
* gallina de la tierra
* gallina de los huevos de oro
* gallina de mar
* gallina ponedora
* leche de gallina
* paso de gallina
* pata de gallina
* pie de gallina
* piel de gallina

#### Related terms

* gallináceo
* gallinazo
* gallinero
* gallo

### Further reading

* “gallina”, 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