Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quijada

/kwijˈɑdə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: qui-ja-da
IPA: /kwijˈɑdə/

24

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

jawbone (percussion instrument)

name

A surname from Spanish.

Example Sentences

"In the rest of the film, along with drums, the quijada is used diegetically as well as non-diegetically to bridge transitions between scenes, working as a musical punctuation mark."
"“Natural languages are adequate, but that doesn’t mean they’re optimal,” John Quijada, a fifty-three-year-old former employee of the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, told me. In 2004, he published a monograph on the Internet that was titled “Ithkuil: A Philosophical Design for a Hypothetical Language.” Written like a linguistics textbook, the fourteen-page Web site ran to almost a hundred and sixty thousand words. It documented the grammar, syntax, and lexicon of a language that Quijada had spent three decades inventing in his spare time."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish quijada.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

quijadas (plural)

Rhymes With

nevada granada armada okada radha wada estrada yamada rada intifada tada yadda

Questions

How do you pronounce quijada?: The recorded pronunciation is /kwijˈɑdə/.
What does quijada mean?: jawbone (percussion instrument)
Where does quijada come from?: Borrowed from Spanish quijada.

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