kastanyas
kastányas with stress marks
chestnut
Usage Note
Kastanyas comes from Spanish castañas and refers to the chestnut, a nut not native to the Philippines but familiar through Spanish culinary influence. Roasted kastanyas are sometimes sold as a street snack, and the word is also occasionally applied to similar-looking seeds from certain local trees.
Examples
" Mahilig akong kumain ng kastanyas. "
Natural Translation
I love eating chestnuts.
Literal Translation
Fond I to-eat of chestnut.
" Masarap ang inihaw na kastanyas tuwing tag-lamig. "
Natural Translation
Roasted chestnuts are delicious in the cold season.
Literal Translation
Delicious the roasted chestnuts every cold-season.
" Tuwing Pasko, bumibili kami ng inihaw na kastanyas sa kanto dahil pinapaalala nito sa amin ang aming pagkabata. "
Natural Translation
Every Christmas, we buy roasted chestnuts on the corner because they remind us of our childhood.
Literal Translation
Every Christmas, buy we of roasted chestnut at-the corner because remind it to us the our childhood.
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