What is las piaras?

Question

What is las piaras?

Answer 1

"Piara" is a herd of pigs.

Answer 2

Trivia.

Collective nouns for pigs: a drift,team or herd of pigs; when a group is being moved they are a drove of pigs; young ones are a litter, a farrow of piglets, a sounder of wild pigs, a passel of hogs, a group of boars is singular.

lol. Thanks for that! - --Mariana--, Sep 23, 2009

Answer 3

But it's not limited to pigs. It's just a herd.

It can be used, but the original word was only for pigs. I would laugh if I heard someone saying "una piara de caballos" even if the dictionary says it's right.

Answer 4

From our dictionary

piara

feminine noun

1. herd

piara [pe-ah’-rah]

noun

Herd of swine. (f)

Drove of mares or mules. (f)

Flock of ewes. (Province; Provinicial) (f)

Answer 5

But it's not limited to pigs. It's just a herd.

Answer 6

You should be looking some of these words up in the dictionary. The word is "piara" and "piaras" is the plural.