garrocha

• Homophones: garrochas, garrochât

garrocha

1. third-person singular past historic of garrocher

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *garros (“leg”).^[1] Compare French garrocher and garrot.

• Rhymes: -ɔtʃa
• Hyphenation: ga‧rro‧cha

garrocha f (plural garrochas)

1. (in the plural) heather roots used as firewood

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

From garra (“claw”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈrot͡ʃa/ [ɡaˈro.t͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -otʃa
• Syllabification: ga‧rro‧cha

garrocha f (plural garrochas)

1. pole (used in pole vault)
2. goad

• → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: carucha

• “garrocha”, 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