Falsos Amigos - False Friends in Spanish

[greytop]

Originally Posted by juliebelga

I understand pajaro en espagnol
but pajero, i didn't find it in my online dictionnary
it seems to be very dirty so i'm curious now
can anyone explain me?

You may find this thread from the wordreference forum illuminating. In Engllish it's an anagram of RAW KEN but this is a family forum

[juliebelga]

Thank you very much Greytop

[tobyo]

las cosas que estoy aprendiendo aquí

[gastephen]

Originally Posted by greytop

You may find this thread from the wordreference forum illuminating. In Engllish it's an anagram of RAW KEN but this is a family forum

Hence the author's astonishment at Mitsubishi's choice of model name here.

More about that particular vehicle here.

[hellothere]

Eventually (which "Manuel" got right in Fawlty Towers )
Eventually means finalmente in Spanish.
A translation of eventualmente could be possibly in English.

Another, that was getting me confused when I was learning English:
Library: biblioteca
Librería: bookshop, bookcase

I shall add this nightmarish one
Sensitive (engl): sensible (spa)
Sensible (spa): sensitive (engl), or noticeable (engl)
Sensitivo (spa): sensory (engl)

[El Confuso]

Originally Posted by syoung3315

I think that you meant to say "estar embarazada" unless men being pregnant is becoming more common!

Didn't you hear about the (legally) male person who gave birth in the USA? See this link, for example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7488894.stm

[ValenciaSon]

Originally Posted by El Confuso

Didn't you hear about the (legally) male person who gave birth in the USA? See this link, for example:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7488894.stm

Este amigo me parece un poco falso

[horsdhaleine]

Originally Posted by Salam

haha..well I guess since we're using multiple languages now..here are some similar or actually shared words by Spanish and Arabic:
almojada: pillow in both languages
pato: duck in span. bata: in arabic (very similar pronounciation though)
torro: bull= same in both
alcazar= castle
moketa= carpet in span. moket= carpet arabic.
azul=azraq (sort of similar...lol)
alfombra=alfarsha= throw rug (once again..sort of)
camisa=camisa=shirt
alhambra=red (cuz it was built from red clay or stones or something on the outside)
freza=frez
azucar=sucar
aseita(don't know how to spell oil)= zeit
arroz= roz

oy, que interesante!
el idioma filipino se usa tambien estas palabras...
-almohada (almojada)
-kamisa (camisa)
-alfombra
-asukal (azucar)
-arroz

[El Confuso]

Acabo de aprender que:

destitution = indigencia

destitución = dismissal (from job or office)

[calentita]

Originally Posted by mija

Un tiempo de perros: not exactly like raining cats and dogs. Quite the opposite. Un tiempo de perros means good weather.

also we say "dog day" in english which means hot muggy weather, not nice hot, irritatingly 'close' weather like before a storm clears it. Hence the name of the Al Pacino film, they get all hot and bothered. Its, I'm told because they often occur in September, when you start seeing canis major and minor, the dog stars..

[calentita]

Originally Posted by greytop

You may find this thread from the wordreference forum illuminating. In Engllish it's an anagram of RAW KEN but this is a family forum

gosh. i couldnt get it even from the anagram - but that was an interesting thread over at word reference -
also interesting that pajero can mean lazy (acc. to wordreference) it adds a few inferences to an album i've got Pajeros en la cabeza -

[Petrichor]

complexión = build, constitution.
p.ej. 'Un hombre de complexión fuerte.' = a well-built man.

tez (fem.) and cutis (masc.) = complexion

[lazarus1907]

"Honest" and "honestly", meaning "telling the truth", are translated as "sincero" and "sinceramente" respectively, not "honesto" and "honestamente".

Conversely, "honesto" can be translated as "modest", "chaste" and "virtuous", and also "honest", but only when it means "upright".

Otherwise, you're missing the fine distinctions that can be expressed in Spanish with these words.

[Petrichor]

nudo = knot
desnudo = nude

[calentita]

Originally Posted by Salam

haha..well I guess since we're using multiple languages now..here are some similar or actually shared words by Spanish and Arabic:
almojada: pillow in both languages
pato: duck in span. bata: in arabic (very similar pronounciation though)
torro: bull= same in both
alcazar= castle
moketa= carpet in span. moket= carpet arabic.
azul=azraq (sort of similar...lol)
alfombra=alfarsha= throw rug (once again..sort of)
camisa=camisa=shirt
alhambra=red (cuz it was built from red clay or stones or something on the outside)
freza=frez
azucar=sucar
aseita(don't know how to spell oil)= zeit
arroz= roz

thanks that's really useful -
i love the sound of arabic

[Kralizec]

Originally Posted by horsdhaleine

oy, que interesante!
el idioma filipino se usa tambien estas palabras...
-almohada (almojada)
-kamisa (camisa)
-alfombra
-asukal (azucar)
-arroz

They got them from Spanish; it was a collony of the Spanish Empire. Check the Chavacano language, born from Spanish-Filipino pidgin.

[mightykaboosh]

I've read through the threads to see what "pajero" means and believe that it has multiple uses!

Its not listed in Collins Spanish Dictionary or on Babelfish

However recently I picked up a "Gran Diccionario Cuyas" from a library sale (1968 edition) and it list Pajero as "Straw Dealer"

Now if your telling me that when on holiday in Spain that I can't call a straw dealer a "Pajero" than what can I call them

[Kralizec]

Of course, pajero is the man who spends all day with paja in any sense.

[gastephen]

Originally Posted by mightykaboosh

I've read through the threads to see what "pajero" means and believe that it has multiple uses!

Its not listed in Collins Spanish Dictionary or on Babelfish

However recently I picked up a "Gran Diccionario Cuyas" from a library sale (1968 edition) and it list Pajero as "Straw Dealer"

Now if your telling me that when on holiday in Spain that I can't call a straw dealer a "Pajero" than what can I call them

http://desdeelbano.blogspot.com/2007/05/pajero.html

[Delboy]

I have a lot of trouble remembering which form of Pajero is infact a plabrota (merchant banker)and which is a bird.I was once in a taxi in Peru and saw a flock of birds going by and commented 'mira a los pajeros' only I pronounced it wrongly much to the taxi driver's amusement.Now if I see a bird I say 'mira a la ave ' saves all that embarressment.