bandallo
Galician
editEtymology
editUnknown. Perhaps from banda + -allo; compare Portuguese bandalho. Or either related to Spanish andrajo.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbandallo m (plural bandallos)
- rag
- Synonyms: farrapo, cerello, ciringallo
- (derogatory) rascal; idleton; a despicable or untidy person
- Synonyms: baldreo, pastrán, ciringalleiro
- calamity, disgrace
- 1812, Antonio Benito Fandiño, A Casamenteira:
- Xâ sabes que â miña casa
he moi levada o bandallo
da tia Goras de Rabál,
aquela gran zalameira,
embolvedora è embusteira,
que vive por noso mal:- You know that my house
has become quite a calamity
because of uncle Goras of Rabal,
that great sweat talker,
scheming and liar
that lives to cause us harm
- You know that my house
- 1845, Vicente Turnes, Diálogo entre Silvestre Cajaraville e Domingo Magariños:
- Máis que digan que este mundo
Foi e será un bandallo,
Decote detras da porta
Non hemos de ver o trasno;- No matter how much they say that this world
was and is a calamity,
Not always are we to see
the demon behind the door
- No matter how much they say that this world
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editReferences
edit- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bandallo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bandallo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bandallo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “andrajo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos