Etymology

Sandia Mountains

Today it means: A mountain range east of the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Full definition →

Spanish sandía
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The story

  1. Spanish · borrowed fromsandía“watermelon”
  2. English todaySandia Mountains

Borrowed from Spanish sandía (“watermelon”), which is popularly believed to be a reference to the reddish color of the mountains at sunset.

Words from the same roots

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Sandia

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