Noun: cabaza
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | cabaza |
| Plural f | cabazas |
Sample Sentences
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et por las casas et outras cousas daredes cada ano a min et ao abade do dito moesteiro por razon de forros, huun par de bõõs capoos et huna cabaaça de vino por dia de san Martino. (and you'll give yearly to me and to the abbot of said monastery, for the rent of the houses and the other things, a pair of good capons and a gourd of wine, the day of Saint Martin) [1380, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El monasterio de San Clodio do Ribeiro en la Edad Media: estudio y documentos, Sada / A Coruña: Edicións do Castro, page 512:]
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Son dous Mozos solteiros polas trazas,
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son dous Asnos q[u]e andan sempre juntos,
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foron á Santiago á buscar puntos
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é viñeron cargados de cabazas (They are two bachelors, judging by the signs
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two asses who always go together
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they went to [the university of] Santiago to make points
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and came back loaded with pumpkins [bad grades]) [c. 1810, Antonio Arias Teixeiro, Sonetos con estrambote:]
Nouns inflected like cabaza
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from an earlier *calabaça, probably from Paleo-Hispanic *calapaccia. Cognate with Portuguese cabaça, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
cabaaça', Portuguese Nouns '
cabaça', Spanish Nouns '
calabaza', Catalan Nouns '
carabassa'.
Verbs referencing "cabaza"
English Nouns
calabash, Portuguese Nouns
cabaça.
Translations