rabuñar

• arrabuñar

From Old Galician-Portuguese [Term?], from Latin rapīna, influenced by uña (“nail”) and arañar (“to scratch”).^[1] Compare Portuguese unhar.

• IPA^(key): /raβuˈɲaɾ/

rabuñar (first-person singular present rabuño, first-person singular preterite rabuñei, past participle rabuñado)

1. (transitive) to claw; to scratch

   Synonyms: agatuñar, arañar

   Ollo co gato que che vai rabuñar.

   Be carefull with the cat, or else he will scratch you.

   • c. 1780, anonymous author, Cincuenta décimas contra Cernadas:

     porque rabuñou a certo cavaleiro co as uñas dos seus Pes: apreixanllas ben, para que non rasque a outro.

     because he clawed certain gentleman with the nails of his feet: secure them well, for not scratching another

• rabuñada
• rabuñadura
• rabuño

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