siesta

English

WOTD – 24 March 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɪˈɛstə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /siˈɛstə/
Rhymes: -ɛstə

Noun

siesta (plural siestas)

A nap, especially an afternoon one taken after lunch in some cultures.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
  One humid afternoon a visitor did arrive to disturb Rottcodd as he lay deeply hammocked, for his siesta was broken sharply by a rattling of the door handle […]

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:shut-eye

Translations

an afternoon nap

Armenian: հետճաշյա հանգիստ (hetčašya hangist), սիեստա (hy) (siesta)
Catalan: sesta f, migdiada (ca) f, becada (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 午睡 (zh) (wǔshuì), 午休 (zh) (wǔxiū), 午覺 (zh), 午觉 (zh) (wǔjiào)
Esperanto: siesto
Finnish: siesta (fi), iltapäivätorkut pl, tupluuri
French: sieste (fr) f
German: Mittagsruhe f, Siesta (de) f, Mittagsschlaf (de) m
Greek: σιέστα (el) f (siésta)
Hungarian: szieszta (hu)
Ido: siesto (io)

Italian: siesta (it) f, pennichella (it) f
Japanese: 昼寝 (ja) (ひるね, hirune), 午睡 (ja) (ごすい, gosui), シエスタ (shiesuta)
Macedonian: пла́дневна по́чинка f (pládnevna póčinka)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: siesta m, middagshvil m, middagskvil m, f

Nynorsk: siesta m, middagskvil m, middagskvild f
Polish: poobiednia drzemka f
Portuguese: sesta (pt) f
Russian: послеобеде́нный о́тдых m (posleobedénnyj ótdyx), сие́ста (ru) f (sijésta), (usually for children, especially in childcare) мёртвый час m (mjórtvyj čas), ти́хий час (ru) m (tíxij čas)
Spanish: siesta (es) f, descanso (es) m
Swedish: siesta (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Telugu: ^{(please verify)} మధ్యాహ్న నిద్ర (madhyāhna nidra)

Verb

siesta (third-person singular simple present siestas, present participle siestaing, simple past and past participle siestaed)

(intransitive) to take a siesta; to nap.

Synonyms

siest

Anagrams

Tassie, tassie

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Noun

siesta

siesta

Declension

Inflection of siesta (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		siesta	siestat
genitive		siestan	siestojen
partitive		siestaa	siestoja
illative		siestaan	siestoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		siesta	siestat
accusative	nom.	siesta	siestat
accusative	gen.	siestan	siestat
genitive		siestan	siestojen siestain^rare
partitive		siestaa	siestoja
inessive		siestassa	siestoissa
elative		siestasta	siestoista
illative		siestaan	siestoihin
adessive		siestalla	siestoilla
ablative		siestalta	siestoilta
allative		siestalle	siestoille
essive		siestana	siestoina
translative		siestaksi	siestoiksi
instructive		—	siestoin
abessive		siestatta	siestoitta
comitative		—	siestoineen

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Noun

siesta f (invariable)

siesta, nap

Anagrams

asseti, esista, estasi, issate

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish siesta.

Noun

siesta f (plural siestas)

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) nap

Synonyms

(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) durmida
(Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) cupid
(Sursilvan) tut
(Sutsilvan) sien
(Surmiran) cupidada, durmeidetta, cuc
(Puter, Vallader) sönin
(Vallader) sönet

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sexta (hora) (“sixth hour, noon”), feminine of sextus (“sixth”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsjes.ta/

Noun

siesta f (plural siestas)

siesta

Antonyms

duermevela

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