pardal
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- pardale [16th c.]
Etymology edit
From Latin pardalis, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis), from an unattested Old Iranian word; compare Persian پلنگ (palang), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng).
Noun edit
pardal (plural pardals)
- (obsolete) A pard; a panther or leopard.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Wyld beasts in yron yokes he would compell; / The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore, / The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell […]
Asturian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pardal m (plural pardales)
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pardalus, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλος (párdalos), from πάρδαλις (párdalis, “panther”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pardal m (plural pardals)
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Further reading edit
- “pardal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “pardal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “pardal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pardal m (plural pardais)
- house sparrow
- Synonym: gorrión
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “pardal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
References edit
- “pardal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “pardal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “pardal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “pardal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From pardo (“mottled”) + -al.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pardal m (plural pardais, feminine pardoca or pardaloca, feminine plural pardocas or pardalocas)
References edit
- ^ “pardal” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “pardal” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.