different between casita vs cabana

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish casita.

Noun

casita (plural casitas)

1. A small, attached but self-contained house or apartment

Synonyms

• mother-in-law apartment
• granny annexe

Anagrams

• Itasca

Spanish

Etymology

From casa (“house”) +? -ita.

• Cognate with Italian casetta

Noun

casita f (plural casitas)

1. Diminutive of casa
   1. small house
   2. (endearing) house
2. mother-in-law apartment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cabaña. Doublet of cabin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??bæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Noun

cabana (plural cabanas)

1. A cabin or hut for relaxing.
2. (Canada, US) A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.

Translations

See also

• cabin

Further reading

• “cabana”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Catalan

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /k??ba.n?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ka?ba.na/

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanes)

1. Alternative form of cabanya (“hut”)

Galician

Etymology

From Late Latin capanna, attested by Isidore of Seville, and well documented in local Medieval charters at least since the 10th century. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia. Cognate of English cabin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka??ana?/

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. cabin, hut, shack; barn
   • c. 1300, R. Martínez López (ed.), General Estoria. Versión gallega del siglo XIV. Oviedo: Archivum, page 88:

     pensarõ que mellores moradas poderiam aver que as que aviam, et buscarõ mays sobre esto, et tomarõ madeyros que arrymarõ aas p?nas et aas grandes aruores et cobriã aqueles madeyros dos rramos das aruores et das eruas, et fezerõ logo desto moradas pequenas asy cõmo cabanas ou choças enque morassem.

     they though that they could get better dwellings than that that they had, so they searched about this, and they took logs that they supported against boulders and against large trees, and they covered them with branches and grasses, and so they made of these some minor dwellings, such as cabins or huts, where they can live

   Synonyms: alboio, alpendre, cabanel, pendello

Derived terms

References

• “cabana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cabana” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cabana” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cabana” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cabana” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• chabana

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin capanna.

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. (Gascony, Languedoc, Provençal) cabin, hut

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?ba?na
• Rhymes: -??na

Noun

cabana f (plural cabanas)

1. cabin, hut, shack