nabo

• IPA^(key): [naᵐbo]

nabo

1. spider

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• Hyphenation: na‧bo

nabo

1. devil's cotton (Abroma augustum)

From Old Norse nábúi (“neighbour”), from ná- (“near”) and búi (“inhabitant”).

• IPA^(key): /naːbo/, [ˈnæːb̥o]

nabo c (singular definite naboen, plural indefinite naboer)

1. neighbour

• “nabo” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from German Nabe.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnabo]
• Rhymes: -abo
• Hyphenation: na‧bo

nabo (accusative singular nabon, plural naboj, accusative plural nabojn)

1. hub of a wheel, nave

   Synonym: aksingo

2. hub of a propeller

   Synonym: ŝaftingo

From Old Galician-Portuguese nabo (attested from 1257 in Galician documents), from Latin nāpus (“turnip”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaβo̝/

nabo m (plural nabos)

1. (botany, cooking) turnip (Brassica rapa)
   • 1283, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 191

     Pedro Periz filou vun nabo con ſuas uerſſas na mao da dita curtina τ meteuo ao dito abade na mao, dizendo que la entregaua a dita curtina τ aſ ditas caſas como ſuas

     Pedro Pérez took in his hand a turnip of the aforementioned farmland, with its greens, and put it in the hand of the abbot, while saying that the was giving back this farmland with its buildings

2. (figurative, vulgar) penis

• arríncate nabo (a kid's game)
• nabal (“turnips field”)
• nabeira (“turnips field”)
• nabiña (“turnip seed”)
• nabiza (“turnip young leaves”)
• nabo caíño (“bryony”)
• nabo da norza (“bryony”)

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

From Esperanto nabo, from German Nabe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnabo/

nabo (plural nabi)

1. hub of a wheel, nave

nābō

1. first-person singular future active indicative of nō

From Danish nabo, from Old Norse nábúi.

nabo m (definite singular naboen, indefinite plural naboer, definite plural naboene)

1. a neighbour / neighbor

• granne

• “nabo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “nabo” in The Ordnett Dictionary

From Danish nabo, from Old Norse nábúi.

• IPA^(key): /²nɑːbʊ/

nabo m (definite singular naboen, indefinite plural naboar, definite plural naboane)

1. a neighbour (UK) or neighbor (US)

• granne

• “nabo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Galician-Portuguese nabo, from Latin nāpus (“turnip”).

• Rhymes: -abu
• Hyphenation: na‧bu

nabo m (plural nabos)

1. (botany, cooking) turnip (Brassica rapa or its root)

nabo m (plural nabos, feminine naba, feminine plural nabas)

1. (derogatory, idiomatic) idiot

Inherited from Old Spanish nabo, from Latin nāpus (“turnip”) (compare -nip in English turnip, Catalan nap, French navet, Italian napo, Portuguese nabo, Romanian nap, Scottish English neep), from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu, “mustard”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnabo/ [ˈna.β̞o]

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• Rhymes: -abo
• Syllabification: na‧bo

nabo m (plural nabos)

1. turnip

   nabo de Suecia ― swede

   nabo gallego ― rape

2. any thick root
3. (nautical) mast
4. heart (of split wood)
5. (slang) penis

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pene

nabo m (plural nabos, feminine naba, feminine plural nabas)

1. (derogatory, colloquial, at least in Argentina) a stupid person

• “nabo”, 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

From Old Norse nábúi.

nabo c

1. (archaic) neighbour

• granne

• nabo in Svensk ordbok.

• boan, bona