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Asturian
Etymology
Cognate with Galician banzado.
Pronunciation
Noun
banzáu m (plural banzaos)
- an irrigation canal with water diverted from a river
- María Esther García López, Toponimia: Valdés, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 9:
- ; riégase con agua d’un banzáu.
- ; it is irrigated with water from an irrigation canal.
- a dam used to divert water from a river
- Roberto González-Quevedo González, L’espaciu agrariu en Palacios del Sil, in 2002, Cultures, 11, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 356:
- L’oxetivu del banzáu que se fai nel ríu yía embalsar l’augua (chámase tamién banzáu a la masa d’augua que s’axunta pola mor de la paré de piedra).
- The point of the diversion dam built in a river is to dam the water (the mass of water that collects because of the stone wall is also called banzáu).