garrano

Portuguese

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from English garron, borrowed from Scottish Gaelic gearran and Irish gearrán, from gearr (“short”) + -án. Gearr from Middle Irish gerr (“short”), from Proto-Celtic *gerros.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ̃.nu/ [ɡaˈhɐ̃.nu]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ̃.nu/ [ɡaˈχɐ̃.nu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈʁɐ.no/ [ɡaˈhɐ.no]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈʁɐ.nu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡɐˈʁa.nu/

Hyphenation: gar‧ra‧no

Noun

garrano m (plural garranos)

garron, a breed of horse from Galicia and northern Portugal

Further reading

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