sordas

Sordas is primarily a linguistic term found in Spanish. It is the feminine plural form of the adjective sordo, meaning deaf. As such, sordas is used to modify feminine nouns or to refer to groups of deaf women, for example las personas sordas (the deaf people) or niñas sordas (deaf girls). In practice, the masculine plural form is sordos, while the feminine singular form is sorda and the masculine singular is sordo.

Etymology traces the word to Latin surdus, meaning “deaf” or “unable to hear,” with Spanish evolving sordo/sorda as the standard masculine and feminine forms. The plural feminine form sordas arose through regular gender and number agreement in Spanish grammar.

Outside of its direct adjectival use, sordas can appear as a surname in some Spanish-speaking communities and occasionally as part of place names or literary titles, though such uses are not widely documented as standalone concepts. It is distinct from the Portuguese term surdas, which is the ordinary feminine plural of surda (deaf) in Portuguese; the Portuguese equivalent of the Spanish sordas is not used in the same way.

In summary, sordas is a grammatical form in Spanish used to describe deaf people or things that are feminine in gender and plural in number. It does not designate a separate cultural or scientific concept on its own, but rather functions within the language as a gendered plural adjective. When encountered in non-Spanish contexts, it may reflect a proper noun or a transliteration rather than a term with intrinsic meaning.