noun, feminine/ˈembɾa/plural: hembras
female
“"Tenés sábados, hembras y televisores / Tenés días para andar aún sin los pantalones." / No preguntes más!” — You have Saturdays, women, and televisions / You have days when you can go without even wearing pants / Don't ask any more questions!
Related: abrótano hembra, erizo hembra, helecho hembra, mañío hembra, sanícula hembra
Inherited from Old Spanish femna, fembra, from Latin fēmina (“female”), from Proto-Italic *fēmanā, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥n-eh₂ (“(f.) one who is sucked; one who suckles”), derivation of the verbal root *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”). Doublet of fémina, which is a direct borrowing.