# sierra
## Translingual
### Noun

sierra
* Alternative letter-case form of Sierra of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sierra, from Latin serra (“saw”), referring to the saw-tooth profile of the crestline of the range seen from a distance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siˈɛɹə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɹə

### Noun

sierra (countable and uncountable, plural sierras)
* A rugged range of mountains.
    Meronym: sawback
    Holonym: cordillera
* (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Sierra from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
* A scombroid fish.
* (uncountable) A relatively low-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
** 2005, Karen Anand, International Cooking With Karen Anand, page 77:Mancha selecto is the world's best saffron: deep-red stamens, as long as the first joint of your thumb, packed and date-stamped. Lesser types, like sierra saffron, have shorter stamens and a quantity of white and yellow flower parts.

#### Derived terms

* Sierra County
* Sierra Leone
* Sierra Nevada

#### Related terms

* Montserrat
* serrated
* serration

### Anagrams

* reairs, airers, 'Arries, iraser, Rieras, raiser, re-airs, arsier, arries

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin serra.

### Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)
* mountain-range

### References

* Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “sierra”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* serra

### Etymology

From Latin serra.

### Noun

sierra f (plural sierres)
* saw (tool)

#### Related terms

serrar

## French
### Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)
* (geography) sierra

### Further reading

* “sierra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sierra.

### Noun

sierra f (invariable)
* sierra

### Anagrams

* arresi, arrise, riarse, riresa, serrai

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -era
* Syllabification: sie‧rra
* Homophone: (Latin America) cierra

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin serra.

#### Noun

sierra f (plural sierras)
* saw (tool)
* mountain range
    Sierra Madre OccidentalWestern Mother Mountain Range
* sawfish
* (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)

##### Derived terms

* caballero de sierra
* dientes de sierra
* gallina de la sierra
* madera de sierra
* motosierra
* sierra caladora
* sierra circular
* sierra de arco
* sierra de cinta
* sierra de ingelte
* Sierra de la Ventana
* sierra de mano
* sierra de punta
* sierra de sable
* sierra de vaivén
* sierra eléctrica
* sierra ingletadora
* sierra para metales
* té de la sierra
* vizcacha de la sierra

##### Related terms

* aserradero
* aserrar
* aserrín
* serrano
* serrucho

##### Descendants

* → English: sierra

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

sierra
* inflection of serrar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “sierra”, 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