garza

See also: Garza

Asturian

Noun

garza f (plural garces)

1. heron (bird)

Galician

Alternative forms

• garcia (northeast)
• gharsa (eye dialect)
• garça (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a substrate language, probably Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.

Cognate with Spanish garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɾθɐ]
• (dialectal, Western) IPA^(key): [ˈħaɾs̺ɐ]

Noun

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

   Synonym: ghanza

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garça”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garza”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “garza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.d͡za/
• Rhymes: -ardza
• Hyphenation: gàr‧za

Etymology 1

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from French gaze, from Arabic غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.

Noun

garza f (plural garze)

1. gauze (fabric)
2. (medicine) gauze (fabric used as surgical dressing)

   Synonym: garza idrofila

Further reading

• garza¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish garza.

Noun

garza f (plural garze)

1. name of several species of heron:
   1. Synonym of airone bianco maggiore
   2. Synonym of airone cenerino
   3. Synonym of airone rosso

Derived terms

• garzaia
• garzetta
• sgarza

 

Further reading

• garza² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

garza

1. inflection of garzare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.

Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡaɾ.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈɡaɾsa/ [ˈɡaɾ.sa]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɾθa
• Rhymes: -aɾsa
• Syllabification: gar‧za

Noun

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

Derived terms

• garceta
• garcilla
• garza azulada
• garza blanca
• garza bruja
• garza ceniza
• garza dorada
• garza ganadera
• garza imperial
• garza morena
• garza real
• garza rojiza
• garza silbadora

 

Adjective

garza f

1. feminine singular of garzo

Further reading

• “garza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28