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cizaña

Spanish, noun

cizaña is spelled C-I-Z-A-Ñ-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 50,132nd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cizaña is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “darnel, tare (grass weed)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of cizañar. With a tilde, cizañá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of cizañar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “(Lolium temulentum) Planta anual de la familia de las gramíneas, cuyas cañas crecen hasta más de un metro con…”.

What does cizaña mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininedarnel, tare (grass weed)

  2. 2

    femininean injurious thing or action

  3. 3

    femininedissension, enmity

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular present indicative

  2. 2

    second-person singular imperative

verb

as cizañá
  1. 1

    second-person singular voseo imperative of cizañar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

noun: 1. (Lolium temulentum) Planta anual de la familia de las gramíneas, cuyas cañas crecen hasta más de un metro con hojas estrechas de veinte centímetros de largo y flores en espigas terminales comprimidas con aristas agudas. Crece espontáneamente en los sembrados y la harina de su semilla puede ser venenosa, a causa de la presencia de un hongo endófito. 2. Vicio que se mezcla entre las buenas acciones o costumbres. 3. Cualquier cosa que hace daño a otra, maleándola o echándola a perder. 4. Disensión o enemistad, usado generalmente con los verbos meter y sembrar.

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 cizaña

  • cizañas plural
  • zizaña alternative obsolete

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to cizaña

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is cizaña in Spanish?

cizaña appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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