Noun: gabão
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gabão |
| Singular f | gabona |
| Plural m | gabões |
| Plural f | gabonas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like gabão
paparrotão,
sabichão,
reclamão,
brincalhão,
amarelão,
moleirão,
beberrão,
vendilhão,
comilão,
solteirão,
falastrão,
fujão,
gabão,
calão,
cuzão,
negão,
papão,
valão,
paspalhão,
trapalhão, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Unknown. Proposed etymologies include:
2. * Borrowed from Italian gabbano.
3. * Borrowed from Spanish gabán, from Arabic قَفْطَان (qafṭān) or Arabic عَبَاءَةٌ (ʕabāʔatun).
4. * Ultimately from Persian قبا (qabâ, “long garment”), with -ão.
5. * Inherited from Late Latin capanna (“hut”).
6. * Inherited from Latin *capānum, from capa.
7. * Borrowed from Arabic عَبَاءَة (ʕabāʔa, “woollen tunic”), via a popular form قَبَاء (qabāʔ). See: Italian Nouns '
gabbano', Spanish Nouns '
gabán', Latin Nouns '
*capānum', Latin Nouns '
*capānum'.
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