garrano
Portuguese
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)
- garron, a breed of horse from Galicia and northern Portugal