rabuñar
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Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin rapīna, influenced by uña (“nail”) and arañar (“to scratch”).[1] Compare Portuguese unhar.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]rabuñar (first-person singular present rabuño, first-person singular preterite rabuñei, past participle rabuñado)
- (transitive) to claw; to scratch
- Synonyms: agatuñar, arañar
- Ollo co gato que che vai rabuñar.
- Be carefull with the cat, or else he will scratch you.
- c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:
- porque rabuñou a certo cavaleiro co as uñas dos seus Pes: apreixanllas ben, para que non rasque a outro.
- because he clawed certain gentleman with the nails of his feet: secure them well, for not scratching another
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of rabuñar
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “rabun”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rabuñar”, 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), “rabuñar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rabuñar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “rapiña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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