cremallera

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère. Doublet of clemàstecs (“trammel”).

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleres)

1. zip fastener; zipper
2. (mechanical engineering) rack

Noun

cremallera m (plural cremalleres)

1. (rail transport) Ellipsis of tren cremallera.; rack railway

Further reading

• “cremallera” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cremallera”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cremallera” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cremallera” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɾemaˈʝeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʝe.ɾa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kɾemaˈʝeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʝe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kɾemaˈʎeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʎe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kɾemaˈʃeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʃe.ɾa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kɾemaˈʒeɾa/ [kɾe.maˈʒe.ɾa]

• Rhymes: -eɾa
• Syllabification: cre‧ma‧lle‧ra

Noun

cremallera f (plural cremalleras)

1. zip fastener; zipper

   Synonym: cierre

2. (mechanical engineering) rack

Interjection

cremallera

1. zip it, shush

Further reading

• “cremallera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16