See also: rabaño, rábānō, and rąbano

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Probably borrowed from Spanish rábano,[1] from Latin raphanus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos). A native variant rábão also exists, reflecting the expected loss of intervocalic Latin /n/ and showing /b/ for an original Latin /p/, a sound frequently used in borrowings to render the Ancient Greek /pʰ/.[2] According to da Cunha, rábano and rábão are first attested in 1813, and a variant rabom was first attested in the 15th century.[3] Compare Galician ravo, Catalan rave, and Italian rafano.

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: rá‧ba‧no

Noun

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rábano m (plural rábanos)

  1. (botany) horseradish

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References

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  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1985) “rábano”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume IV (Me–Re), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 742‒743
  2. ^ Williams, Edwin B. 1962. From Latin to Portuguese: Historical phonology and morphology of the Portuguese language. 2nd edn. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. §72.3.
  3. ^ da Cunha, Antônio Geraldo (2010) “rábano, rábão”, in Dicionário etimológico da lingua portuguesa, 4th edition

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Spanish rávano, from Latin raphanus, from Ancient Greek ῥάφανος (rháphanos), perhaps related to ῥάπυς (rhápus), ῥάφυς (rháphus, turnip).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈrabano/ [ˈra.β̞a.no]
  • Audio (Spain):(file)
  • Rhymes: -abano
  • Syllabification: rá‧ba‧no

Noun

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rábano m (plural rábanos)

  1. radish
    Synonym: rabanito

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Cebuano: labanos
  • San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: rábānō
  • Tagalog: labanos

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