garrano

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from English garron, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic gearran and Irish gearrán, from gearr (“short”) + -án. Gearr from Middle Irish gerr (“short”), from Proto-Celtic *gerros.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ̃.nu/ [ɡaˈhɐ̃.nu]
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ̃.nu/ [ɡaˈχɐ̃.nu]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ.no/ [ɡaˈhɐ.no]
 

  • Hyphenation: gar‧ra‧no

Noun

garrano m (plural garranos)

  1. garron, a breed of horse from Galicia and northern Portugal
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