tafona

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese atafona, from Andalusian Arabic الطَاحُونَة (aṭ-ṭāḥūna), from Arabic طَاحُونَة (ṭāḥūna, “mill”). Compare Portuguese atafona and Spanish tahona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈfona̝/

Noun

tafona m (plural tafonas)

1. bakery

   Synonyms: forno, panadaría

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tafona”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tafona”, 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), “tafona”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega