arpía
Spanish, noun/aɾˈpia/
arpía is spelled A-R-P-Í-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish, the 70,049th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Arpía is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “harpy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Harpia harpyja) Águila de gran tamaño, de hasta 2 m de envergadura, de la Familia Accipitridae y…”.
What does arpía mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineharpy
- 2
derogatoryfemininerarevulgarbitch, vixen, shrew, harpy, termagant, harridan
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. (Harpia harpyja) Águila de gran tamaño, de hasta 2 m de envergadura, de la Familia Accipitridae y característica del los bosques de lluvia de América del Centro y del Sur. 2. (Harpyopsis novaeguineae) Águila endémica de Nueva Guinea, de la Familia Accipitridae propia de los bosques tropicales de altura. 3. Animal fantástico de la mitología griega con cuerpo de ave, cabeza de mujer y cola de serpiente. Son características las harpías en los capiteles románicos. 4. Mujer malvada y cruel.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of arpía
- arpías plural
- harpía alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce arpía?
- /aɾˈpia/
- [aɾˈpi.a]
- [aɾˈpia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to arpía
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is arpía in Spanish?
arpía appears about once in every 3 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).