gabar

Probably Blend of garde +‎ barre.

gabar m (plural gabars)

1. Micronisus gabar, the gabar goshawk.

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese gabar (13th century); either from Old Occitan gabar, from Old French gaber, or directly from Gothic or Suevic.[1] From Proto-Germanic *gabbaną (“to mock, jest”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈβaɾ/

gabar (first-person singular present gabo, first-person singular preterite gabei, past participle gabado)

1. (transitive) to praise, laud, extol

   Antes que probedes, non gabedes. (proverb) ― Before you prove, don't praise.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to brag, to boast

   Quen moito se gaba, ben delo lle falta (proverb) ― He who boasts a lot [about something], lacks a lot of it

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana, page 405:

     Aquela noyte nõ foy y tal que rrijsse, nẽ sse gabasse do que fezera, tãto forõ todos maltreytos.

     That night there were none there to laugh or to boast about the deeds of the day, so mistreated they were

   • 1470, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. Vigo: Galaxia, page 362:

     tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muytas fyrydas e matara ó dito Gonçaluo Roz, e que ouuera muitos dynheyros dos ditos fynados, e mais diseron que se gauaba que de XX tyros que tyrara que todos empregara, saluo dous

     all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting; and they said that he caused many wounds and that he killed the aforementioned Gonzalvo Rois, and that he took many moneys from the dead; and they added that he was boasting that of twenty shots he had thrown, all but two had hit the mark

3. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of gabar
4. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of gabar

• gabadela (“little praise”)
• gabanza (“praise”)

• “gabar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “gab-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “gabar” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “gabar” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gabar” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

gabar

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍂

Borrowed from Old Norse gabb with the verbal suffix -ar. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French gaber.

gabar

1. to mock
2. to joke
3. to threaten

• Catalan: gabar
• Occitan: gabar
• → Old Portuguese: gabar
  • Galician: gabar
  • Portuguese: gabar

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928-2002), “gabb”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 160, page 3

From Occitan gabar.

gabar (first-person singular present indicative gabo, past participle gabado)

1. (transitive) to praise
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun, transitive with de) to brag, boast

   Ele se gaba de poder falar seis idiomas.

   He boasts that he can speak six languages.

• (to brag): ufanar

• enquanto não acabes, não te gabes
• gabarola
• gabarolice