hamaca

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish hamaca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [əˈma.kə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [aˈma.ka]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

hamaca f (plural hamaques)

1. hammock

Further reading

• “hamaca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “hamaca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “hamaca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “hamaca”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Interlingua

Noun

hamaca (plural hamacas)

1. hammock

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈmaka/ [aˈma.ka]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ha‧ma‧ca

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Taíno hamaca.

Noun

hamaca f (plural hamacas)

1. hammock

   Synonym: chinchorro

2. (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Rioplatense) swing

   Synonym: columpio

3. (Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Southern Cone) rocking chair

   Synonyms: mecedora, balancín

4. pole stretcher

Derived terms

• hamaca paraguaya (“hammock”) (Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, Uruguay)
• hamacar
• hamaquear
• sillón de hamaca

Descendants

• → Catalan: hamaca
• → Dutch: hangmat
  • Afrikaans: hangmat
  • →? German: Hängematte
  • → Swedish: hängmatta
  • → West Frisian: hingelmatte (calque)
• → English: hammock
  • → Japanese: ハンモック (hanmokku)
  • → Swedish: hammock
  • → Welsh: hamog
• ⇒ Esperanto: hamako
• → French: hamac
  • → Ottoman Turkish: حاماق (hamak)
    • Turkish: hamak
  • → Romanian: hamac
  • → Russian: гама́к (gamák)
    • → Armenian: գամակ (gamak)
    • → Azerbaijani: qamak
  • → Ukrainian: гама́к (hamák)
• → Italian: amaca
• → Polish: hamak
• → Portuguese: maca
• → Sranan Tongo: amaka

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hamaca

1. inflection of hamacar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “hamaca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “hamaca”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010