# piña
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish piña.

### Noun

piña (countable and uncountable, plural piñas)
* cloth woven from pineapple fiber
* (metalworking) A cone of silver amalgam prepared for retorting.
* (metalworking) The residual cone of spongy silver left after the retorting.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* APNI, NIPA, PAIN, PANI, Pain, nipa, pain, pian

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* pinha (reintegrationist)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pīnea.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲɐ]
* Rhymes: -iɲa
* Hyphenation: pi‧ña

### Noun

piña f (plural piñas)
* pinecone
* pineapple
* bunch (of grapes)
    Synonyms: acio, cacho

#### Derived terms

* piñeiro

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “piña”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (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), “piña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “piña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* “piña”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīnea. The sense "pineapple" comes from its resemblance to a pinecone, similarly to English pineapple. The sense "core of the agave plant" comes from its resemblance to a pineapple after the leaves are chopped off for harvesting.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiɲa/ [ˈpi.ɲa]
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* Rhymes: -iɲa
* Syllabification: pi‧ña

### Noun

piña f (plural piñas)
* (botany) pinecone
    Synonyms: estróbilo, cono
* pineapple
    Synonyms: ananá (Argentina, Uruguay), ananás
* (Canary Islands, Rioplatense, Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Honduras, Cuba) a punch
    Synonym: puñetazo
** (Dominican Republic, Argentina) fight
* (Argentina, colloquial) collision, accident, crash
* (figurative) close-knit group
** 2020 April 10, Los Desayunos de TVE (television production), Pablo Iglesias Turrión (actor):[…] debatimos de muchas cosas, pero una vez que las cosas se debaten, y una vez que llegamos a un acuerdo, somos una piña(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* the core of the agave plant
* (El Salvador, colloquial) gay male

#### Derived terms

* apiñar
* piña colada
* piñal
* piñata
* piñazo
* piñón

#### Related terms

* pino

#### Descendants

* → English: piña
* → Bikol Central: pinya
* → Cebuano: pinya
* → Hiligaynon: pinya
* → Tagalog: pinya

### Further reading

* “piña”, 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
* “piña”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* piña on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{es}$