cavala

Borrowed from one or more of the following: Occitan cavala, Piedmontese cavala, Italian cavalla.

cavala f (plural cavales) (ORB, broad)

1. female horse, mare

   Synonyms: èga, jument

   Coordinate term: chevâl m

• jument in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• cavala in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1062: “un cavallo; la cavalla” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 736: “jument” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr

• IPA^(key): /ka.va.la/
• Homophones: cavalas, cavalât

cavala

1. third-person singular past historic of cavaler

Inherited from Latin caballa.

• IPA^(key): [kaˈβalo]

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cavala f (plural cavalas)

1. mare

   Synonym: èga

Inherited from Latin caballa.

cavala f

1. mare

From Latin caballa. Compare Spanish caballa.

• Rhymes: -alɐ

cavala f (plural cavalas)

1. mackerel (edible fish of genus Scomber or Scomberomorus)

   Synonym: sarda

• Although cavala is etymologically the feminine form of cavalo, its meaning is not related to the female horse, which is called égua (from Latin equa).

cavala

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of cavar combined with la