mejana

Occitan

Pronunciation

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Adjective

mejana

1. feminine singular of mejan

Spanish

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mediāna (“middle”), but via Aragonese or Catalan (cf. mitjana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meˈxana/ [meˈxa.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: me‧ja‧na

Noun

mejana f (plural mejanas)

1. an islet in a river; an eyot

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “majano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 775

Further reading

• “mejana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16