garrucha
Spanish, noun[gaˈrut͡ʃa]
garrucha is spelled G-A-R-R-U-C-H-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish, the 101,597th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garrucha is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “pulley” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Máquina compuesta de una ó muchas rodajas que giran sobre unos ejes de hierro, y están suspendidas por ambos…”.
What does garrucha mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininepulley
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Máquina compuesta de una ó muchas rodajas que giran sobre unos ejes de hierro, y están suspendidas por ambos extremos de dos barrotes, en las cuales hay una canal por donde pasa una cuerda ó maroma, con la que se mueven ó levantan piedras ú otros cuerpos de mucho peso. Segun el número de garruchas ó poleas de que se compone esta máquina, toma nombre diferente: si de una, se llama monopastos; si de
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 garrucha
- garruchas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce garrucha?
- [gaˈrut͡ʃa]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to garrucha
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garrucha in Spanish?
garrucha appears about once in every 7 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).