garabato

English

Noun

garabato (uncountable)

1. Uncaria guianensis, a plant found in Guyana.

Galician

Etymology

From a substrate language, perhaps from the same origin that carba and carballo; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾaˈβato̝/

Noun

garabato m (plural garabatos)

1. a small twig

   Synonyms: billote, garabullo

2. pitchfork

   Synonyms: forca, forcada, galleta

Derived terms

• Garabatos
• garabito
• garabizo
• garabullo

References

• “garau” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “garabato” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “garabato” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “garabato” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

DLE indicates Iberian [Term?] origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾaˈbato/ [ɡa.ɾaˈβ̞a.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -ato
• Syllabification: ga‧ra‧ba‧to

Noun

garabato m (plural garabatos)

1. doodle, scribble (small mindless sketch)
2. scribble, scratching (illegible writing)
3. swear word

   Synonyms: disparate, palabrota, grosería

4. a type of hook
5. a type of hoe
6. gibberish

Derived terms

• garabatear

 

Further reading

• “garabato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014