carvallo

See also: Carvallo

Spanish

Alternative forms

• carballo

Etymology

Borrowed from Galician carballo. Further etymology unknown; possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈbaʝo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kaɾˈbaʝo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /kaɾˈbaʎo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʎo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaɾˈbaʃo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaɾˈbaʒo/ [kaɾˈβ̞a.ʒo]

 

• Rhymes: -aʝo

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Rhymes: -aʎo
• Rhymes: -aʃo
• Rhymes: -aʒo

• Syllabification: car‧va‧llo

Noun

carvallo m (plural carvallos) (Spain)

1. oak

   Synonym: roble

2. Portuguese oak (Quercus faginea)

   Synonyms: quejigo, rebollo

Further reading

• “carvallo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28