cabaza

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Galician

Cabazas for sale (cured gourds used as containers)
Cabaza

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from an earlier *calabaça, probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *calapaccia. Cognate with Portuguese cabaça, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈβaθa̝/, (western) /kaˈβasa̝/

Noun

cabaza f (plural cabazas)

  1. pumpkin, squash, gourd
  2. cured gourd used traditionally in Galicia as a container for liquids
    • 1380, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 512:
      et por las casas et outras cousas daredes cada ano a min et ao abade do dito moesteiro por razon de forros, huun par de bõõs capoos et huna cabaaça de vino por dia de san Martino.
      and you'll give yearly to me and to the abbot of said monastery, for the rent of the houses and the other things, a pair of good capons and a gourd of wine, the day of Saint Martin
  3. (figurative, in the plural) bad grades
    • c. 1810, Antonio Arias Teixeiro, Sonetos con estrambote:
      Son dous Mozos solteiros polas trazas,
      son dous Asnos q[u]e andan sempre juntos,
      foron á Santiago á buscar puntos
      é viñeron cargados de cabazas
      They are two bachelors, judging by the signs
      two asses who always go together
      they went to Santiago to make points
      and came back loaded with pumpkins

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References

  • “cabaç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cabaaç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “cabaza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cabaza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cabaza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “calabaza”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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