How do you pronounce "Piranha"?

Purr-rana

I pronounce it like @chyna does but in Spanish, the “i” is an “ee” sound so I guess it’s actually supposed to be “pee-ranna.”

Kind of in between pa-ranah and pur-anah. More like pa-ranah.

The spanish word is piraña. So, pee-rah-gna. I don’t know how to write out a tilde n phonetically, so I wrote it in Italian like bologna. Lol. The English anna is not how the Spanish word would be pronounced.

Per-ra-nah. It’s how everyone I knew pronounced it. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain area.

Puh-ran-na or pretty much like everyone else is saying.

I pronounce it with a short i. Pi- ranna.

It is a word from indigenous people, not from Spanish or Portuguese: pirá meaning fish and sainha meaning tooth; the same word is used by Indians to describe a pair of scissors. Another possible derivation is from pira nya, probably literally ‘biting-fish’.

This site has the audible of how to pronounce it in the English way and the Spanish way.

The English is how @chyna pronounces it. The Spanish is “pee-rahn-ya.”

https://www.spanishdict.com/pronunciation/piranha

I pronounce it like @chyna and @jca2 per ana or purr ana

Purr raw nah

Nya. Of course that makes sense to write the n with a tilde that way. I couldn’t think of it.

peer ah nah
or
per ah nah
or in-between

I put the r in the first syllable and pronounce the ñ as in señor: pir-ahn-ya.

Under normal circumstances: pih-rah-na

All short vowel sounds.

If being attacked by one: aaAARR-PEERAARR-GGGGHHHH!!

Puhranna