cremallera

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère. Doublet of clemàstecs (“trammel”).

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleres)

Noun

cremallera m (plural cremalleres)

(rail transport) Ellipsis of tren cremallera.; rack railway

Further reading

“cremallera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“cremallera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
“cremallera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
“cremallera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kɾemaˈʝeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʝe.ɾa]
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kɾemaˈʎeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʎe.ɾa]
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kɾemaˈʃeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʃe.ɾa]
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kɾemaˈʒeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʒe.ɾa]

Rhymes: -eɾa
Syllabification: cre‧ma‧lle‧ra

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleras)

zip fastener; zipper
Synonym: cierre
(mechanical engineering) rack

Interjection

cremallera

zip it, shush

Further reading

“cremallera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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