atafal

Galician
Atafal

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese atafal, borrowed from Arabic ثَفَر (ṯafar). Compare Spanish atafarra, ataharre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ataˈfal/

Noun

atafal m (plural atafais)

  1. crupper (a strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping)
    Synonym: retranca

References
  • “atafal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “atafal” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “atafal” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “atafal” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “atafal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  • Corriente, Federico (2008) “atafal”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN
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