galbán

• galván

Borrowed from Latin galba, or directly from Proto-Celtic *galbā, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *golbʰo- (“womb; animal young”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡalˈbaŋ/, (western) /ħalˈbaŋ/

galbán m (plural galbáns)

1. a kind of little worm used as bait for fishing (animal)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “galbán”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega