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Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese atafona, from Andalusian Arabic الطَاحُونَة (aṭ-ṭāḥūna), from Arabic طَاحُونَة (ṭāḥūna, “mill”). Compare Portuguese atafona and Spanish tahona.
Pronunciation
Noun
tafona m (plural tafonas)
- bakery
- Synonyms: forno, panadaría
References
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tafona”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tafona”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tafona”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega