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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Galician carballo. Further etymology unknown; possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaɾˈbaʝo/
- IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kaɾˈbaʎo/
- IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaɾˈbaʃo/
- IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaɾˈbaʒo/
- Syllabification: car‧va‧llo
Noun
carvallo m (plural carvallos) (Spain)
- oak
- Synonym: roble
- Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea)
- Synonyms: quejigo, rebollo
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