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carba.

sessile oak (Quercus petraea)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Galego language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkaɾba/[ˈkɑɾ.β̞ɐ]

  1. sessile oak (Quercus petraea)

    feminine

  2. oak stump

    feminine

  3. heath

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Unknown; from a substrate language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kr̥-wós (compare Latin curvus, "bent"). Compare also Asturian carba (“brushwood”); garbu, gárabu (“small branch”), Basque garbasta, garbazta (“pole with branches”) and Sardinian carba, carva (“tree branch”).

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