gafo

See also: gafó

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese gafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Either from gafa (“hook”), from Old Occitan gafar (“to grab”); or from Arabic.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡafo̝/

Noun

gafo m (plural gafos, feminine gafa, feminine plural gafas)

  1. leper; any person with a deformity
    Synonym: leproso
  2. hex

Adjective

gafo m (feminine singular gafa, masculine plural gafos, feminine plural gafas)

  1. leprous
    Synonym: leproso
  2. molest, gross

Derived terms

References
  • “gafo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “gaf” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “gafo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “gafo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  1. Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991–1997). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos, s.v. gafa, gafo.
  2. “gaffer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

gafo

  1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of gafar.
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