garbanço

Old Spanish

Etymology

Of uncertain origin:

Perhaps altered from arvanço and of Germanic origin, from an unattested Gothic *𐌰𐍂𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (*arwaits), from Proto-Germanic *arwīts (“pea”).^[1]
From Paleo-Hispanic such as Basque garbantzu and perhaps related to the Germanic source above.^[2]

Compare dialectal Portuguese ervanço. Presumably influenced by garroba (“carob fruit”) and galbana (“small pea; a variety of pea”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈbant͡so/

Noun

garbanço

chickpea; garbanzo

Descendants

Spanish: garbanzo

References

^ “garbanzo”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
^ “garbanzo”, 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈbanθo/ [ɡaɾˈβ̞ãn̟.θo] (Spain)
IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈbanso/ [ɡaɾˈβ̞ãn.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
Rhymes: -anθo (Spain)
Rhymes: -anso (Latin America, Philippines)
Syllabification: gar‧ban‧ço

Noun

garbanço m (plural garbanços)

obsolete form of garbanzo
- 1698, Gerónimo Soriano, Methodo y orden de cvrar las enfermedades de los niños, Domingo Gascón, →ISBN, page 13:
  Tomaràs aſsi miſmo en la palma de la mano tanta miel, como vn garbanço, y con ella le fregaràs ligeramente la barriga …
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)