garrano

Portuguese
garrano

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɡɐ.ˈʁɐ.nu/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ɡa.ˈʁɐ.nu/
  • Hyphenation: gar‧ra‧no

Noun

garrano m (plural garranos)

  1. garron, a breed of horse from Galicia and northern Portugal
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