gabar

Probably Blend of garde +‎ barre.

gabar m (plural gabars)

1. Micronisus gabar, the gabar goshawk

From Old Galician-Portuguese gabar (13th century); either from Old Occitan gabar, from Old French gaber, or directly from Gothic or Suevic.^[1] From Proto-Germanic *gabbaną (“to mock, jest”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈβaɾ/

gabar (first-person singular present gabo, first-person singular preterite gabei, past participle gabado)

1. (transitive) to praise, laud, extol

   Antes que probedes, non gabedes. (proverb) ― Before you prove, don't praise.

2. (pronominal) to brag, to boast

   Quen moito se gaba, ben delo lle falta (proverb) ― He who boasts a lot [about something], lacks a lot of it

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, page 405:

     Aquela noyte nõ foy y tal que rrijsse, nẽ sse gabasse do que fezera, tãto forõ todos maltreytos.

     That night there were none there to laugh or to boast about the deeds of the day, so mistreated they were

   • 1470, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 362:

     tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muytas fyrydas e matara ó dito Gonçaluo Roz, e que ouuera muitos dynheyros dos ditos fynados, e mais diseron que se gauaba que de XX tyros que tyrara que todos empregara, saluo dous

     all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting; and they said that he caused many wounds and that he killed the aforementioned Gonzalvo Rois, and that he took many moneys from the dead; and they added that he was boasting that of twenty shots he had thrown, all but two had hit the mark

• gabadela (“little praise”)
• gabanza (“praise”)

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “gabar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “gab-” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “gabar”, 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), “gabar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “gabar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “gabar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

gabar

1. Romanization of 𐌲𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍂

• IPA^(key): /ɡá.bàr/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ɡə́.bàr]

gabàr̃ f

1. Alternative form of gabàs (“east”)

gabar

1. wrapper

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Borrowed from Old Norse gabb with the verbal suffix -ar. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French gaber.

gabar

1. to mock
2. to joke
3. to threaten

• Occitan: gabar
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: gabar
  • Galician: gabar
  • Portuguese: gabar

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gabb”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 16: Germanismes: G–R, page 3

From Occitan gabar, from Old Norse gabb (“ridicule, jest”).

• Hyphenation: ga‧bar

gabar (first-person singular present gabo, first-person singular preterite gabei, past participle gabado)

1. (transitive) to praise
2. (pronominal) to brag, boast [with de ‘something’ or de (+ infinitive) ‘of doing something’]

   Synonym: ufanar

   Ele se gaba de poder falar seis idiomas.

   He boasts that he can speak six languages.

• enquanto não acabes, não te gabes
• gabarola
• gabarolice