feina

Catalan

Alternative forms

• faena (Valencia)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan faena, from Latin facienda. Compare Spanish faena and Portuguese faina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfe̞j.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈfəj.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfɛj.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfej.na]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fei‧na

Noun

feina f (plural feines)

1. work, job

   Synonym: treball

Derived terms

• amb prou feines
• enfeinar
• feinada
• feinador
• feinater
• feinejar
• sensefeina

Further reading

• “feina”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “feina”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “feina” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “feina”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)