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10 Sevillanas expressions and words that you must handle if you come to Sevilla

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By on 28/05/2018

Seville is a city rich in history, Culture, values ​​and tradition, but also it has a somewhat peculiar vocabulary that includes phrases and expressions that makes people from other countries or even other areas of Spain not come to understand very clearly.

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We have compiled a list of expressions and phrases that we think you should handle if you come to Sevilla:

  1. “Hip” In the phrase “I Anca” my grandmother, It is meant “I am going to my grandmother's house”
  2. “A Jierro”. This word acts as an adverb for emphasis, translation would be much. To say for example that something you really like, You can say that you like “to Jierro”
  3. “Capillita”. This word is used to indicate that a person is very religious and has a very great taste for the Holy Week in Seville.
  4. “Fite”. the word “fite” is the dimension of the word "look".
  5. “With you with that”. This expression is the shortening of the phrase “with all that”, In addition to that substitute.
  6. “Miarma” One of the expressions of Seville star . It is the derivation of “my soul”.
  7. “the cacharritos”. Refers to attractions Sevilla's fair.
  8. “Chuminá”. He alludes to something silly or unimportant.
  9. “Engolliparse”. signify atragantarse.
  10. “Arrecío”. It means having very cold.

We hope you have enjoyed this so peculiar collection of words and expressions used in Seville.

 

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