gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).^[1] Doublet of ganzo.

• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Hyphenation: gan‧cho

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. hook
2. kind of rake

• aganchar (“to climb”)
• enganchar (“to hook”)
• ganchelo (“having low horns”)
• ganchudo
• reviragancho (“a curved stroke”, literally “overturning hook”)

• ganzo (“twig”)

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

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃ʃu, (Northern Portugal) -ɐ̃t͡ʃu
• Hyphenation: gan‧cho

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. hook; peg; grapple
2. (Portugal) hairpin
3. (telephony) switchhook
4. (narratology) cliffhanger
5. (clothing) the central part of a pair of trousers to which the legs are sown
6. (boxing) a hook or uppercut

• enganchado
• enganchar

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡant͡ʃo/ [ˈɡãnʲ.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Syllabification: gan‧cho

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. (tools) hook, peg
2. (clothing) clothes hanger

   Synonym: percha

3. difficult situation
4. (boxing) hook
5. (boxing) uppercut
6. pulling power
7. attracting object or argument (true or fraudulent)
8. tout

• gancho al mentón
• gancho de derecha, gancho derecho (“right hook”)
• gancho de izquierda, gancho izquierdo (“left hook”)

• → Catalan: ganxo
• → Italian: gancio

• garfio
• anzuelo

• “gancho”, 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
• gancho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• chango