Xoana

From Old Galician-Portuguese Johanna, from Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced Xoán.

der

a female given name, equivalent to English Jane, Jean, Joan, Joanne, or Joanna


raparigo

gl-noun

raparigo m (plural raparigos, feminine rapariga, feminine plural raparigas)

raparigos (plural)
rapariga (feminine)
raparigas (feminine plural)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese raparigo.


vinculeiro

gl-noun

vinculeiro m (plural vinculeiros, feminine vinculeira, feminine plural vinculeiras)

vinculeiros (plural)
vinculeira (feminine)
vinculeiras (feminine plural)

(law) only child or, usually, primogenital who is to inherit the family's home or indivisible properties


xácea

Probably from Arabic جِسْر (jisr, “[wooden] bridge”): compare Classical Syriac ܓܫܪܐ (“bridge; beam”), from the same Akkadian root. Cognate with Spanish jácena and Catalan jàssera.


pílula do día seguinte

pílula do día seguinte f (plural pílulas do día seguinte)


bisarma

Attested since circa 1350. From Old French guisarme, from a Germanic language.

c1350, Kevin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 121

they garnished splendidly the ships' gunwales with javelins and helms and shields and spears and darts and battle-axes and crossbows and gisarmes and swords

garneçerõ moy bẽ os bornos das naues de azcũas et de elmos et de escudos et de lanças et de dardos et de fachas et de balestas et de bisarmas et de espadas


Xacobe

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Jacob, borrowed from Latin Iācōbus, borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), borrowed from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב, from עקב.


nembro

From Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of membro (“member”).


mal bravo

(folklore, medicine) folk name for the diphtheria, anthrax and other sickness


colleitizo

(folklore, medicine) an infectious sickness caused by the passage of vermin


ministrábel

gl-adj

ministrábel m or f (plural ministrábeis)


manguela

Attested since the 14th century. From Latin manganum + -ela, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon). Compare Italian manganello.

(military, historical) mangonel, siege engine


manguela

Attested since the 19th century. From manga + -ela.

(law, obsolete) contract to use handicapped people as beggars, in exchange of maintenance and a rent paid to their parents or relatives


serventía

(law) right to access to or from one's own property through other's properties; a Galician customary law derived from the Germanic freedom to roam

os ditos reos quebrantaron as condiçõẽs do dito foro e foran contra o dito moesteiro e priores del, por ende que avian perdido o dito couto e herdades; e non se escusauan da dita vasalajẽẽ e seruentia por dizer que eran fidalgos, pois que se obligaron a elo

1421, Manuel Lucas Álvarez, editor, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro, page 163:

said defendants broke the condition of said contract and acted against said monastery and priors, and so they had lost said fief and properties; and they were not exempt of said vassalage and ought services saying that they were noblemen, because previously they had obliged themselves to it

(law, historical) service ought to a manor house or monastery either because of a contract or because of dependency


olláparo

(folklore, mythology) kind of cyclops who has an eye in the front of the head and another one in the back


rendeiro

gl-noun

rendeiro m (plural rendeiros, feminine rendeira, feminine plural rendeiras)

rendeiros (plural)
rendeira (feminine)
rendeiras (feminine plural)

Attested since the 13th century. From renda (“rent”) + -eiro.


xeomancia

geomancia

reintegrationist, the stress is on the i


armacén

Borrowed from Arabic المَخْزَن (al-maḵzan). Compare Portuguese armazém, Spanish almacén, English magazine.


cornixa

Probably borrowed from French corniche, ultimately from Latin cornīx (“crow”).


Guerra dos Trinta Anos

[ˈɡɛ.rɐ ˈð̞us̺ ˈt̪ɾin̪.t̪ɐ ˈɐ.nʊs̺]

[ˈɡɛ.rɐ ˈð̞us̺ ˈt̪ɾin̪.t̪ɐ ˈɐ.nʊs̺]

[ˈħɛ.rɐ ˈð̞us̺ ˈt̪ɾin̪.t̪ɐ ˈɐ.nʊs̺]


Xácome

From Late Latin Iacomus, dialect variant of Latin Iacobus, from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ).

der

Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿăqōḇ)


peeira

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese peeira (attested since circa 1409). From Latin pedaria.

inh+

(folklore, mythology) person, usually a woman, who acts as a wolf keeper. If a woman had seven daughters and no sons, the seventh one would became one.