saramago

Galician
Saramago

Alternative forms
  • samarco, samargo, xaramago

Etymology

Unknown. Coromines[1] proposed that it was a borrowing from Arabic, from Persian, but Corrientes[2] considers that his etymology was based just in phonetics; the existence of places whose names are derived with suffixes that were seldom productive in the second millennium, as Saramagoso and Zaramacedo, makes the Arab etymology unlikely and points to a Latin or pre-Latin origin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /saɾaˈmaɣo̝/

Noun

saramago m (plural saramagos)

  1. wild radish, charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum)
    Synonyms: labestro, ravo bravo

Derived terms
  • Saramagal
  • Saramagoso
  • Zaramacedo

References
  • “saramago” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “saramago” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “saramago” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “saramago” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “jaramago”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
  2. Corriente, Federico (2008) “saramago”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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