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pata

paw

noun PAH-tah Rare
Animals & Nature Wild Animals

Also means

leg (of furniture)

Usage Note

Pata is the leg or paw of an animal, and by extension the leg of a piece of furniture. It is NOT used for human legs (pierna or pata only colloquially/offensively for humans). The idiom meter la pata ('to stick one's paw in') means to put one's foot in it — to make a blunder. A cuatro patas means 'on all fours'.

Examples

"El perro se lastimó una pata."

Natural Translation

The dog hurt one of its paws.

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