guadaña
Spanish, noun
guadaña is spelled G-U-A-D-A-Ñ-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 52,113th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Guadaña is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “scythe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a third-person singular present indicative of guadañar. With a tilde, guadañá is a different word: “second-person singular voseo imperative of guadañar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “'Cuchilla ensartada para segar la hierba', princ. S. XV (Corominas)”.
What does guadaña mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininescythe
verb
- 1
third-person singular present indicative
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
second-person singular voseo imperative of guadañar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 'Cuchilla ensartada para segar la hierba', princ. S. XV (Corominas) 2. Instrumento para segar, que se maneja con ambas manos, formado por una hoja larga y curvilínea, puntiaguda por un lado y sujeta por el otro, más ancho, a un mango largo que forma ángulo con el plano de la hoja y lleva dos manijas, una en el extremo y otra en el segundo tercio del mismo. (RAE)
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 guadaña
- guadañas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to guadaña
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is guadaña in Spanish?
guadaña 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).