pestaña

== Asturian == === Noun === pestaña f (plural pestañes) eyelash ==== Synonyms ==== pistaña == Spanish == === Etymology === From Old Spanish pestaña (“eyelash and eyebrow area; eyelash”), cognate with Portuguese pestana (“eyelash”), Catalan pestanya (“eyelash”) and Gascon Occitan pestana, from Vulgar Latin *pistanna, and related to Basque pizta (“rheum, eye sleep”) and piztule (“pestaña”). Coromines and Pascual conjecture that the Vulgar Latin term is perhaps from an uncertain Indo-European language, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pstḗn (“teat, nipple”), as an extension in the sense of something that hangs from the body. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pesˈtaɲa/ [pesˈt̪a.ɲa] Rhymes: -aɲa Syllabification: pes‧ta‧ña === Noun === pestaña f (plural pestañas) (anatomy) eyelash (graphical user interface) tab (navigational widget) flange ==== Derived terms ==== ==== See also ==== patín reborde === References === Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN === Further reading === “pestaña”, 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