aguinaldo

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Aguinaldo^¹

[ʔɐ.ɡɪˈn̪al.d̪o] Philippines

proper noun

A municipality of Ifugao, Philippines.

aguinaldo^²

/ɑːɡɪˈnɑːldoʊ/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.

noun aguinaldos

countable, uncountable A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
countable, uncountable A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
countable, uncountable Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
Latin America, countable, uncountable A Christmas carol.
countable, uncountable A song performed in this style. And he bracketed the concert with joyfully Latin pop: opening the show with towering drums onstage and kinetic Afro-Caribbean rhythms and beginning the final song, “Tu Recuerdo” (“Your Memory”), as a Puerto Rican aguinaldo, gently plucked on the rural miniguitar called a cuatro.
countable, uncountable A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.

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@misc{aguinaldo_2026,
  title = {aguinaldo},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aguinaldo},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}