garfo
Galician
/ˈɡaɾfo̝/
noun
Definitions
- fork eating utensil
- hook
- gig, fishgig; pronged harpoon
- twig
- twig of a bunch of grapes
- (horticulture) cutting, slip; shoot
- hangnail
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese garfio inherited from Latin graphium (stylus, pen) derived from Ancient Greek γράφω (write, draw, I write, scratch, describe, graze, scrape, paintVerb) derived from Andalusian Arabic جَارْفَا (handful) derived from Arabic غُرْفَة (cup dipper).
Origin
Arabic
غُرْفَة
Gloss
cup dipper
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -grapher English
- graph English
- graphism English
- graphium English
- graphology English
- *graphiāre Latin
- -graphia Latin
- graphium Latin
- -gráfia Hungarian
- -grafia Italian
- sgraffiare Italian
- garfio Spanish, Castilian
- γράμμα Ancient Greek
- γράφω Ancient Greek
- γραφή Ancient Greek
- γραφείον Ancient Greek
- γραφεύς Ancient Greek
- γραφεῖον Ancient Greek
- διάγραμμα Ancient Greek
- λογογράφος Ancient Greek
- παράγραφος Ancient Greek
- συγγράφω Ancient Greek
- τοπογράφος Ancient Greek
- χρονογράφος Ancient Greek
- ὁμόγραφος Ancient Greek
- ὑμνογράφος Ancient Greek
- *gerbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- -graf Norwegian Bokmål
- -grafia Portuguese
- garfo Portuguese
- -graf Norwegian Nynorsk
- grafit Danish
- -graf Czech
- -grafie Czech
- graf Czech
- غُرْفَة Arabic
- grefe Old French
- greffe Old French
- groife Old French
- -grafia Catalan, Valencian
- garfela Galician
- garfelo Galician
- γράφω Greek (modern)
- γραπτός Greek (modern)
- garfio Old Portuguese
- ghorofa Swahili
- جَارْفَا Andalusian Arabic
- *grəpʰō Proto-Hellenic
- krāpho lng