piñata

n.
A decorated container filled with candy and toys suspended from a height, intended to be broken by blindfolded children with sticks, and used as part of Christmas and birthday celebrations in certain Latin-American countries or at children's parties.

[Spanish, from Italian pignatta, a kind of pot, probably from dialectal pigna, pine cone (from its shape), from Latin pīnea. See pineal.]

IN BRIEF: n. - Plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: plaything consisting of a container filled with toys and candy; suspended from a height for blindfolded children to break with sticks

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - gryderet

Français (French)
n. - boîte en papier mâché/en argile

Deutsch (German)
n. - Topf

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - πινιάτα, μεξικάνικη σακούλα με ζαχαρωτά κ.λπ.

Italiano (Italian)
pignatta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - artefato dentro do qual se colocam doces e é quebrado em festas infantis

Русский (Russian)
шар из глины или папье-маше

Español (Spanish)
n. - piñata

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - pinata (mex.pappersboll fylld m godis)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
西班牙的彩饰陶罐

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 西班牙的彩飾陶罐

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 캔디를 넣은 사기 항아리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ピニャータ

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כלי מקושט לממתקים (שנוהגים לשוברו בחג)‬

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