yegua

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin equa (compare Catalan euga, Galician egua, Portuguese égua, Romanian iapă), feminine form of equus (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɟ͡ʝeɡwa/, [ˈɟ͡ʝeɣwa]

Noun

yegua f (plural yeguas)

mare
heifer
a contemptible fat woman
The letter Y in the Spanish phonetic alphabet

See also

caballo

Further reading

“yegua” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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