English Online Dictionary. What means sierra? What does sierra mean?
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(key): /siˈɛɹə/
- 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.
Derived terms
- Sierra County
- Sierra Leone
- Sierra Nevada
Related terms
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(key): /ˈsjera/ [ˈsje.ra]
- Rhymes: -era
- Syllabification: sie‧rra
- Homophone: (Latin America) cierra
Etymology 1
Inherited from Latin serra.
Noun
sierra f (plural sierras)
- saw (tool)
- mountain range
- sawfish
- (Chile) snoek (Thyrsites atun)
Derived terms
Related terms
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 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28