esquerre

• esquer

Borrowed from Basque ezker (“left hand”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əsˈkɛ.rə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [esˈkɛ.re]

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esquerre (feminine esquerra, masculine and feminine plural esquerres)

1. left; the opposite of right
2. (geography) on or in the direction of the left bank of a river
3. (politics) left-wing

• dret

• esquerra (“the left”)
• esquerrà (“left-wing, leftist”)

• “esquerre”, 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