garúa

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish garúa, from a Vulgar Latin variant of Classical Latin cālīgō (“fog, mist, vapor”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈru.a/
• Rhymes: -ua
• Hyphenation: ga‧rù‧a

garúa f (uncountable)

1. garua

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

• Garau, agura

Borrowed from dialectal Portuguese caruja.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈɾua/ [ɡaˈɾu.a]
• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: ga‧rú‧a

garúa f (plural garúas)

1. (Latin America) drizzle (very light rain)

   Synonym: llovizna

2. garua (a very fine mist or drizzle that visits the Andean region, especially Ecuador and Peru)

• “garúa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014