caballo

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Aragonese

Etymology

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʎo/
Rhymes: -aʎo
Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llo

Noun

caballo m (plural caballos)

horse

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish caballo.

Noun

caballo

horse
(chess piece) knight

Related terms

caballito

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

caballo

Alternative spelling of cahuallo

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈbal.loː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈbal.lo/,

Noun

caballō

dative/ablative singular of caballus

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaˈbaʝo/
IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaˈbaʎo/
IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈbaʃo/
IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈbaʒo/

(most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -aʝo
(rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -aʎo
(Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -aʃo
(elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -aʒo

Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llo

Noun

caballo m (plural caballos, feminine yegua, feminine plural yeguas)

horse
(chess) knight
(slang) heroin
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter IX, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 132:
  Un yonqui, de espaldas a la cámara, hace unas declaraciones: ahora, el que tiene billetes, se mete coca, o, si toma caballo, se lo mete con plata, lo fuma, ¿sabes?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Hyponyms

caballo de carreras (“racehorse”)
caballo de guerra (“war horse”)
caballo de paso
caballo de silla (“saddle horse”)
caballo de tiro (“draft horse, draught horse, plow horse”)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Chavacano: caballo
Papiamentu: cabai
→ Alcozauca Mixtec: kuái̱
→ Aymara: kawallu
→ Bikol Central: kabayo
→ Cahuilla: kaváayu
→ Cebuano: kabayo
→ Central Huasteca Nahuatl: kauayoj
→ Central Nahuatl: cahuayoh
→ Chamicuro: kawali
→ Chaná: kuayó, cauáio (uncertain)
→ Chol: cawayuʼ
→ Classical Nahuatl: cahuāllo, caballo, cahualloh, cahuayo, cauallo, cavallo
→ Guaraní: kavaju
→ Ilocano: kabalio
→ Ivatan: kabayu
→ Kapampangan: kabayu
→ Lake Miwok: kawáj
→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: cahua̱yoj
→ Mapudungun: kawell, kawellu
→ Maranao: kabayo
→ Mbyá Guaraní: kavaju
→ Nivaclé: cuvôyu
→ O'odham: kaviyu
→ Papantla Totonac: kawayu
→ Paraguayan Guaraní: kavaju
→ Pipil: kāwayu
→ Quechua: kawallu
→ Sayula Popoluca: cawa̱yu
→ Seri: caay
→ Tagalog: kabayo
→ Waray-Waray: kabayo
→ Yatzachi Zapotec: cabey
→ Yosondúa Mixtec: kuayu
→ Zoogocho Zapotec: cabayw

See also

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)

rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

Further reading

“caballo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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