habado
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈbado/ [aˈβ̞a.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: ha‧ba‧do
Adjective
habado (feminine habada, masculine plural habados, feminine plural habadas)
- (veterinary) suffering equine palatitis
- spotted, dapple (having spots on the skin)
- multicolored (of chicken)
Usage seems concentrated in Latin America, e.g. the carpintero habado is native to Latin America.
Further reading
- “habado”, 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