abano

Borrowed from Spanish habano.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbano/ [ʔɐˈba.n̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

abano (Badlit spelling ᜀᜊᜈᜓ)

1. a Havana cigar
2. the wrapper of such cigar

• IPA^(key): /aˈbano/ [aˈβ̞a.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

Probably from a- + Latin vannus (“winnowing basket”).^[1]

abano m (plural abanos)

1. fan (hand-held device waved back and forth in order to move air or cool oneself)

   Synonyms: abanador, abanico

2. the act of waving (moving something back and forth repeatedly)

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

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

From Spanish habano.

abáno

1. a cigar made by machinery

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈabano]
• Hyphenation: aba‧no

abano (plural abano-abano)

1. Sterculia foetida

   Synonyms: jangkang, kelumpang, kepuh

• “abano” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Spanish habano.

abano

1. cigar

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

From a- +‎ Latin vannus (“winnowing basket”).

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

abano m (plural abanos)

1. fan (hand-held device waved back and forth in order to move air or cool oneself)

   Synonyms: abanador, flabelo, leque, ventarola

2. the act of waving (moving something back and forth repeatedly)

• avano (archaic)

• abanico (diminutive), abaninho (diminutive)
• abanão (augmentative)
• abanos

• → Spanish: abano

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

• “abano”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /aˈbano/ [aˈβ̞a.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧no
• Homophone: habano

Borrowed from Portuguese abano. Cognate with English fan.

abano m (plural abanos)

1. ceiling fan

   Synonyms: abanico, ventilador

2. fly-chaser (tool to chase flies from an area)

• → Catalan: vano

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

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