garduña
Galician
Alternative forms
- gardunha (reintegrationist)
Etymology
Unknown; compare Spanish garduña.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uɲa
- Hyphenation: gar‧du‧ña
Noun
garduña f (plural garduñas)
- beech marten
- Synonyms: fuíña, furatoxos
References
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garduña”, 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), “garduña”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garduña”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Spanish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaɾˈduɲa/ [ɡaɾˈð̞u.ɲa]
Audio (Spain): (file) - Rhymes: -uɲa
- Syllabification: gar‧du‧ña
Noun
garduña f (plural garduñas)
- beech marten
- (colloquial, El Salvador, Nicaragua) a disorderly crowd; a rabble; a mob
- (colloquial, El Salvador) a game in which a person scrambles or throws something at random for others to compete
Derived terms
Further reading
- “garduño”, 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
- “garduña”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010