gabanza
Galician
Alternative forms
- gabança (reintegrationist)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese gabança (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from gabar (“to praise”) + anza.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -anθa
- Rhymes: -ansa
- Hyphenation: ga‧ban‧za
Noun
gabanza f (plural gabanzas)
- (literary) praise; flattery
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 363:
- Et nõ estaua alý estonçe quen rrijsse, nẽ quen falasse en alegría nẽ en gabãça, mays ante estauã todos moy tristes et fazíã grã doo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (literary) accolade
Related terms
References
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “gabança”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “gabança”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gabanza”, 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), “gabanza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gabanza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN