comadreja

== Spanish == === Etymology === From comadre (“midwife; godmother”) +‎ -eja (diminutive suffix), said to be after its sinuous and nimble (and therefore “feminine”) figure. Compare equivalents in other Romance languages (Italian donnola, Portuguese doninha, Galician doniña, Romanian nevăstuică) but not only (Greek νυφίτσα (nyfítsa), Danish brud, Arabic اِبْن عِرْس (ibn ʕirs)). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /komaˈdɾexa/ [ko.maˈð̞ɾe.xa] Rhymes: -exa Syllabification: co‧ma‧dre‧ja === Noun === comadreja f (plural comadrejas) weasel (a mammal of the genus Mustela) Synonyms: comadreja común, comadreja menor marten (Rioplatense, Paraguay) opossum, possum (especially the white-eared opossum Didelphis Albiventris) Synonyms: zarigüeya, comadreja overa ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “comadreja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 comadreja on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es