garavanzo

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garvanço, from ervanço, from an Indo-European substrate language (Proto-Germanic *arwīts (pea), Latin ervum (vetch)) and ultimately possibly a Mediterranean borrowing cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos).[1]

Cognate with dialectal Portuguese ervanço, Spanish garbanzo.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ɡaɾaˈbanθo/
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ħaɾaˈbanθo/
  • IPA(key): (gheada and seseo) /ħaɾaˈbanso/

 

  • Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧van‧zo

Noun

garavanzo m (plural garavanzos)

  1. garbanzo bean, chickpea
  2. garbanzo bean plant
  3. (locally) pea
  4. (locally) common bean

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “garbanzo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos