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Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Unknown. Proposed etymologies include:
Noun
gabão m (plural gabões)
- cloak, overcoat
Etymology 2
From gabar (“to brag”) + -ão.
Noun
gabão m (plural gabões, feminine gabona, feminine plural gabonas)
- braggart; boaster (someone who brags)
- Synonym: gabola
References
- Antenor Nascentes (1955) “gabão”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa [Portuguese language etymological dictionary] (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, volume I, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria Acadêmica, page 230, column 1
- ^ Caldas Aulete, Dicionário contemporâneo da língua portuguesa, third edition (1974)
- ^ Nascentes, citing A. A. Cortesão, Subsídios para um dicionário completo (histórico-etimológico) da língua portuguesa (1900 - 1901)
- ^ Nascentes, citing Fr. João de Sousa, Vestígios da língua arábica em Portugal, ou léxico etimológico, aumentado e anotado por Fr. José de Santo Antônio Moura (1830)
- ^ Nascentes, citing Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Romanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (1911 - 1920)
- ^ Nascentes, citing Friedrich Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen (1876 - 1877)
- ^ Nascentes, citing Eguilaz y Yanguas, Glosario etimológico de las palabras españolas (castellanas, catalanas, mallorquinas, portuguesas, valencianas y bascongadas) de origen oriental (1886) and Auguste Scheler, Dictionnaire d'étymologie française
- ^ Nascentes, citing Fr. José de Santo Antônio Moura’s contribution to Vestígios da língua arábica em Portugal, ou léxico etimológico, aumentado e anotado por Fr. José de Santo Antônio Moura (1830) and Emile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française (1885)