gralha

• agraula, graula

From Old Occitan [Term?], from a Vulgar Latin root *gracla, syncopated form of Late Latin grācula, from Latin grāculus. Compare Catalan gralla, French grolle, Portuguese gralha.

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gralha f (plural gralhas)

1. (Languedoc, Provençal, Vivaro-Alpine) crow

From Old Galician-Portuguese gralla, from a Vulgar Latin root *gracla, syncopated form of Late Latin grācula, from Latin grāculus, from Proto-Indo-European *greh₂-k- (“croak”). Compare Spanish grajo, graja, Catalan gralla, Italian gracchia.

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• Rhymes: -aʎɐ
• Hyphenation: gra‧lha

gralha f (plural gralhas)

1. chough (bird of the subfamily Pyrrhocoracinae)
2. Any of a number of more distantly related but superficially similar corvids, such as crows, rooks, jackdaws and certain species of jays.
3. (colloquial) chatterbox
4. typo, error