yeguar

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos

Proto-Italic *ekwos

Latin equus

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Italic *-ā

Latin -a

Latin equa

Old Spanish yegua

Spanish yegua

Spanish -ar

Spanish yeguar

From yegua + -ar.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeˈɡwaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈɣ̞waɾ]

• IPA^(key): /ʝeˈɡwaɾ/ [ɟ͡ʝeˈɣ̞waɾ] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /ʃeˈɡwaɾ/ [ʃeˈɣ̞waɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /ʒeˈɡwaɾ/ [ʒeˈɣ̞waɾ] (elsewhere in Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ye‧guar

Adjective

yeguar m or f (masculine and feminine plural yeguares)

1. (relational) mare

Further reading

• “yeguar”, 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