batería
battery
noun bah-teh-REE-ah Less Common
Origin: French batterie (a beating), via military use
Also means
drum kit
Usage Note
Batería covers a battery (electrical cell or pack: la batería del teléfono), a set of drums (tocar la batería), and in cooking a batería de cocina (set of pots and pans). The drummer in a band is el/la batería — the same word, unusually masculine or feminine by the person's gender.
Examples
"La batería del móvil está casi agotada."
Natural Translation
The phone battery is almost dead.
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