bafo

Onomatopoeic. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese bafo (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria). Cognate with Portuguese bafo, Ladino bafo and Spanish vaho.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbafo̝/

bafo m (plural bafos)

1. breath (exhalation)
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica Troiana:

     Et el deytaua da boca hũa escuma que semellaua chama, et o sseu bafo semellaua que queymaua o ayro.

     He emitted from his mouth a foam that seemed a flame, and his breath appeared to burn the air

2. bad breath
3. puff
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 136:

     Et moy rregeo tãgeo o corno que pero que era de marfil que o fendeu cõ o bafo, et al quebrantouselle as veas do pescoço et os nerueos

     And very strongly he blew the horn, but since it was made of ivory he broke it with the puff, and also he broke the veins of the neck and the nerves

4. vapor, steam
   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé (ed.), Rufus, Jordanus: Tratado de Albeitaria. Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 141:

     amasa todo en huun et cozeo en ola noua ben cuberta de huun testo, que non posa ende sayr bafo nen fumo

     knead everything together and cook it in a new pot, well covered by a lid, so that neither steam nor smoke come out

   Synonym: vapor

5. air vent of the oven

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

bafo f (Latin spelling)

1. breath
2. blow (act of expeling air from the mouth)

Onomatopoeic. From Old Portuguese bafo.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈba.fu/
• Hyphenation: ba‧fo

bafo m (plural bafos)

1. bad breath
2. breath

• bafejar

bafo m (plural bafi)

1. whisker
2. (chiefly in the plural) moustache