gharsa
Appearance
Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.
Cognate with Spanish garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gharsa f (plural gharsas)
- Eye dialect spelling of garza (“heron”).
- Synonym: ghanza
References
[edit]- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gharsa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega