esparaván

Galician

Etymology

Attested since circa 1409. From Old French esparvain (French éparvin), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [espaɾaˈβaŋ]

Noun

esparaván m (plural esparaváns)

1. spavin, bone spavin

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esparauan”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esparaván”, 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), “esparaván”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esparaván”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

From esparver, from Provençal esparvier, via Frankish from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”) (since horses infected with spavin were said to walk like sparrows).

Noun

esparaván m (plural esparavanes)

1. spavin, bone spavin

Further reading

• “esparaván”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10