abano

Borrowed from Spanish habano.

• IPA^(key): /ʔaˈbano/ [ʔɐˈba.n̪o]
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

abano (Badlit spelling ᜀᜊᜈᜓ)

1. a Havana cigar
2. the wrapper of such cigar

• IPA^(key): /aˈbano/ [aˈβ̞a.nʊ]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

Probably from a- + Latin vannus (“winnowing basket”).^[1]

abano m (plural abanos)

1. fan (hand-held device waved back and forth in order to move air or cool oneself)

   Synonyms: abanador, abanico

2. the act of waving (moving something back and forth repeatedly)

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

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

• “abano”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• “abano”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

From Spanish habano.

abáno

1. a cigar made by machinery

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

• IPA^(key): [ˈabano]
• Hyphenation: aba‧no

abano (plural abano-abano)

1. Sterculia foetida

   Synonyms: jangkang, kelumpang, kepuh

• “abano”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From Spanish habano.

abano

1. cigar

• Howard P. McKaughan, Batua A. Macaraya (1967), A Maranao Dictionary‎^[2] (overall work in Maranao and English), University of Hawaii Press

From a- +‎ Latin vannus (“winnowing basket”).

• Hyphenation: a‧ba‧no

abano m (plural abanos)

1. fan (hand-held device waved back and forth in order to move air or cool oneself)

   Synonyms: abanador, flabelo, leque, ventarola

2. the act of waving (moving something back and forth repeatedly)

• avano (archaic)

• abanico (diminutive), abaninho (diminutive)
• abanão (augmentative)
• abanos

• → Sinhalese: අවාන (awāna), අවානය (awānaya)
• → Spanish: abano

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

• “abano”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “abano”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “abano”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /aˈbano/ [aˈβ̞a.no]
• Rhymes: -ano
• Syllabification: a‧ba‧no
• Homophone: habano

Borrowed from Portuguese abano. Cognate with English fan.

abano m (plural abanos)

1. ceiling fan

   Synonyms: abanico, ventilador

2. fly-chaser (tool to chase flies from an area)

• → Catalan: vano

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

abano

1. first-person singular present indicative of abanar

• “abano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025