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

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

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28