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entraña
feminine noun
1. skirt (RP)
  • churrasco de entraña -> grilled skirt steak
entrañas
plural feminine noun
1. entrails, insides (vísceras)
  • arrancarle a alguien las entrañas (figurative) -> to break somebody's heart
  • no tener entrañas (figurative) -> to be heartless
2. heart (centro, esencia)
  • las entrañas de la Tierra -> the bowels of the earth

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entraña [en-trah'-nyah]
noun
1. An entrail, a bowel, any principal organ or part which has an appropriate use; very seldom used in the singular in either language. (f)
noun, plural
2. Entrails, bowels.
3. Entrails, the internal parts of anything; center of a city, heart of a country. (Metaphorical)
4. Mind, affection (sentimientos); disposition (temperamento); idiosyncrasy. (Metaphorical)
5. The inmost recess of something.
  • Dar las entrañas -> or dar hasta las entrañas, to give one’s very heart-blood away
  • Esto me llega a las entrañas -> that goes to my heart

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entraña
1 entrañas (Anatomía) entrails; bowels
en las entrañas de la Tierra in the bowels of the Earth
arrancar las entrañas a algn to break sb's heart; tear sb's heart out
dar hasta las entrañas to give one's all
echar las entrañas to puke (up) (familiar)
2 (lo esencial) core
3 entrañas (sentimientos) heart
singular
; (s) feelings; (temperamento) disposition
singular
; (s)
no tener entrañas to be heartless; ¡hijo de mis entrañas! my precious child!; my beloved son!; de malas entrañas malicious; evil-minded; de buenas entrañas well-intentioned; kind-hearted

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