garapata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Noun

garapata (plural garapatas)

1. (US) A kind of wood tick.
   • 1873, United States. Navy Department, Annual Reports of the Navy Department, page 188:

     […] principally among the former were the garapatas, a vicious species of wood-tick, which swarm almost every leaf and plant growing near the ground […]

   • 1890, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in Mexico, page 508:

     One of the worst annoyances of their visit to Uxmal was that whenever they moved about they became covered with garapatas. The garapata is a tick so small that it is hardly perceptible to the naked eye, but it is capable of making a bite or sting like that of a red ant or a hot needle.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡa.ɾaˈpa.ta]

Noun

garapata

1. tick

Hiligaynon

Alternative forms

• kalapata

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta

Noun

garapata

1. tick

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡɐ.ɾɐˈpa.tɐ]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta

Noun

garapata (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇᜉᜆ)

1. tick

Derived terms

• garapatahin

 

Related terms

• garapito