xibardo

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from French gibard (compare Middle French gibbar (humpback whale)), ultimately from Latin gibber (hunchbacked).[1] Compare Spanish yubarta.

Pronunciation

Noun

xibardo m (plural xibardos)

  1. humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

References

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