xiringa

Galician

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: xi‧rin‧ga

Etymology 1

from Medieval Latin sȳringa, from Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “pipe, syrinx”). Cognate with Portuguese seringa and Spanish jeringa.

Alternative forms

• xeringa

Noun

xiringa f (plural xiringas)

1. syringe
2. squirt gun
   • 1911, F. Potel Pardal, Costumes da Terra, page 52:

     Agardan xa na Pont'a Valga os rapaces polas mozas; uns con naranxas na man cheas de parromo do forno, outros con fariña triga, da que as nais tiñan gardada pra facer filloas, metida no peto e con xiringas feitas dun cacho de cana i un pau con estopa na punta os máis deles.

     The boys await for the girls at the bridge over the Valga river: some of them with oranges in hand, full of ashes of the oven; others with wheat flour -of the one that the mothers had for making crepes- in the pocket; and most of them with squirt guns made with a piece of cane and a twig with tow at its tip

Derived terms

• xiringar

References

• “xiringa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “xiringa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “xiringa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

xiringa

1. inflection of xiringar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative