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tarabela

Pronunciation: [taɾaˈβɛlɐ]

“tarabela” is a Galician word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. gimlet, auger, drill
  2. by extension, windmill blades or some other traditional devices composed by an axis and blades
  3. device composed by an axis, blades and a tin, used as a scarecrow through the percussion of the wind moved blades and the tin
  4. chattering damsel
  5. a fool; someone who changes his mind all the time
  6. a chatty person, chatterbox
  7. percussion musical instrument build from a cane

In Galician

  1. Instrumento que fai ruído, para escorrentar paxaros, normalmente cun mecanismo accionado polo vento.
  2. Peza do muíño apoiada sobre a moa e unida á quenlla,que cando se move a moa, sacode a quenlla que vai deixando caer o gran a moer no ollo do muíño.
  3. Pecho dunha peza cravada xusto polo centro e que xira sobre si mesma para abrir ou pechar algo.
  4. Trade do pequeno tamaño, cunha barrena do tamaño dun cravo.

Etymology

15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, either from Vulgar Latin *terebella, a diminutive of Latin terebra (“gimlet”), or from a diminutive of trabs (thus possibly a doublet of treu). Cognate with Occitan taravèla, Portuguese taramela and Spanish tarabilla.

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