garduña

Galician

Garduña or fuíña ("beech marten")

Alternative forms

• gardunha (reintegrationist)

Etymology

Unknown; compare Spanish garduña.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈduɲa/ [ɡɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ɡaɾˈduɲa/ [ɡɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ħaɾˈduɲa/ [ħɑɾˈð̞u.ɲɐ]

• Rhymes: -uɲa
• Hyphenation: gar‧du‧ña

Noun

garduña f (plural garduñas)

1. beech marten

   Synonyms: fuíña, furatoxos

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garduña”, 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), “garduña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garduña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Spanish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈduɲa/ [ɡaɾˈð̞u.ɲa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -uɲa
• Syllabification: gar‧du‧ña

Noun

garduña f (plural garduñas)

1. beech marten
2. (colloquial, El Salvador, Nicaragua) a disorderly crowd; a rabble; a mob
3. (colloquial, El Salvador) a game in which a person scrambles or throws something at random for others to compete

Derived terms

• a la garduña

 

Further reading

• “garduño”, 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
• “garduña” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010