tarro

See also: tarró

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic تاقرة (tāqra, “milking pail”), which is also found as a liquid measure tagra rarely in Galician-Portuguese, in Old Spanish tagara (“bowl”) and Old Leonese tagara, tagarra (“bowl”), and in Spanish tarreñas, tarrañuelas (“two pieces of slate or earthenware placed between the fingers to rattle”), and is ultimately one of the many variants of Latin tēgula (“a tile also for frying”), which is found in the meaning of a jar for example in Macedonian тегла (tegla, “jar”). Doublet of teja.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtaro/ [ˈt̪a.ro]
Audio (Colombia): (file)
Rhymes: -aro
Syllabification: ta‧rro

Noun

tarro m (plural tarros)

jar (most frequently used in Spain)
Synonyms: frasco, bote
pot (e.g., honey)
shelduck
(Chile) can (e.g., a can of food or a coffee can)
(Mexico, Guatemala) mug (of beer)
(Cuba) horn

Derived terms

References

Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “tāqrah”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 221, but derives from a Berber word for a plate
Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), “tagra”, in Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 508, but derives from a Berber word for a plate
Schuchardt, Hugo (1918) Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IV^th treatise)‎^[1] (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, page 57
Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 525, wrongly connects to thēca as noted by Schuchardt