aguinaldo
[ʔɐ.ɡɪˈn̪al.d̪o]
aguinaldo means A municipality of Ifugao, Philippines.
aguinaldo is pronounced [ʔɐ.ɡɪˈn̪al.d̪o].
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish aguinaldo.
name
- A municipality of Ifugao, Philippines.
noun
- A gift given at Christmas or at the Feast of the Epiphany.
- A gift given on any other holiday or occasion.
- Christmas pay bonus; Christmas box.
- A Christmas carol.
- 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.”
- A wild tropical plant of the Convolvulaceae family, very common in Cuba and which flowers at Easter and Christmas.