chaparro
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See also: Chaparro
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]chaparro (plural chaparros)
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish chaparro, from Basque txapar, txaparro (“dwarf evergreen oak”), diminutive of sapar, zapar (“thicket, bush”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: cha‧par‧ro
Noun
[edit]chaparro m (plural chaparros)
- (Southern Portugal) cork oak (Quercus suber)
Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from dialectal Basque txapar, txaparro (“dwarf evergreen oak”), diminutive of sapar, zapar (“thicket, bush”). Doublet of chaparra.
Noun
[edit]chaparro m (plural chaparros, feminine chaparra, feminine plural chaparras)
- kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
- chaparral (scrubland)
- (Mexico) netleaf oak (Quercus rugosa)
- (Mexico) person of short stature
- (colloquial, El Salvador) illegally produced or homemade hard liquor made from sugarcane; illegally made rum
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: chaparro
Further reading
[edit]- “chaparro”, 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
- “chaparro” in Diccionario de americanismos, Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2010
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