hierbajo

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der.

Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-dʰ?

Latin herba

Old Spanish yerva

Spanish hierba

Latin -aculum

Spanish -ajo

Spanish hierbajo

From hierba + -ajo.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾˈbaxo/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈβ̞a.xo]

• IPA^(key): /ʝeɾˈbaxo/ [ɟ͡ʝeɾˈβ̞a.xo] (everywhere but Pampas and southern Argentina and Uruguay)
• IPA^(key): /jeɾˈbaxo/ [jeɾˈβ̞a.xo] (Pampas and southern Argentina, Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -axo
• Syllabification: hier‧ba‧jo

Noun

hierbajo m (plural hierbajos)

1. weed (bad or unwanted plant)

Further reading

• “hierbajo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025