garça

See also: Garça

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Celtiberian *cárcia, from Proto-Celtic *korksā.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾ.t͡sa/

Noun

garça f (plural garças)

heron
- a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 352 (facsimile):
  
  Eſte açor fillaua Garças ⁊ ãades ⁊ Betouros / ⁊ out(ra)s prijões muitas.
  This goshawk caught herons and ducks and bitterns / and many other kids of prey.

Descendants

Galician: garza
Portuguese: garça

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garça, from Celtiberian *cárcia, from Proto-Celtic *korksā; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.

Cognate with Galician, Asturian, and Spanish garza, Mirandese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈɡah.sɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾ.sɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʁ.sɐ/ [ˈɡaχ.sɐ]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɻ.sɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaʁ.sa/ [ˈɡah.sa]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾ.sɐ/

Audio (Brazil): (file)
Rhymes: -aɾsɐ
Hyphenation: gar‧ça

Noun

garça f (plural garças)

heron (any of the long-legged, long-necked wading birds of the family Ardeidae)

Descendants

→ Thai: กระสา (grà-sǎa)
→ Lao: ກະສາ (ka sā)
→ Khmer: ក្រសារ (krɑsaa)

Further reading

“garça”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“garça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026