🇪🇸 Spanish

miel

feminine

la miel

honey

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miel
/la mjel/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say miel in Spanish?

IPA
/la mjel/

How do you pronounce miel in Spanish?

miel is pronounced /la mjel/ in Spanish.

Example sentences

La miel dorada que compré en el mercado es deliciosa y muy pura.

The golden honey that I bought at the market is delicious and very pure.

Esta miel oscura es más antigua que aquella miel clara.

This dark honey is older than that clear honey.

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Why is it feminine?

Miel is feminine in Spanish. It derives from Latin "mel" (neuter), and like many Latin neuter nouns, it was reassigned to the feminine gender during the evolution of Romance languages. However, "mel" did not follow the typical pattern of merging with feminine -a endings—instead, it retained its original form while acquiring feminine gender assignment, likely due to analogy with other feminine nouns or phonetic factors that made it associate with the feminine class.

What is the Spanish word for honey?

The Spanish word for honey is la miel — feminine.

Gender across languages

LanguageWordArticleGender
🇫🇷 Frenchmiel flips!lemasculine
🇮🇹 Italianmiele flips!ilmasculine
🇵🇹 Portuguesemel flips!omasculine

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