abrazo

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See also: abrazó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abrazar (“to embrace”), from a + brazo (“arm”), from Latin bracchium.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /ɑˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /əˈbɹɑˌzoʊ/, /æˈbɹæ.θo/[1][2]
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

abrazo (plural abrazos)

  1. A Latin American embrace. [1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrazo”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8.
  2. ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN), page 5

Galician

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /aˈbɾaθo/
  • IPA(key): (seseo) /aˈbɾaso/

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧bra‧zo

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

Noun

abrazo m (plural abrazos)

  1. hug, embrace

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

abrazo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of abrazar

Spanish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal from abrazar.

Noun

abrazo m (plural abrazos)

  1. hug, embrace
    Synonyms: achuchón, estrujón
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

abrazo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of abrazar

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