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caballo

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Aragonese

Alternative forms

caball

Etymology

From Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʎo/
Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llo
Rhymes: -aʎo

Noun

caballo m (plural caballos)

horse

References

Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish caballo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʎo/, [kaˈba.ʎo]
Hyphenation: ca‧ba‧llo

Noun

caballo

horse
(chess) knight

Related terms

caballito

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

caballo

alternative spelling of cahuallo

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaˈbal.loː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈbal.lo]

Noun

caballō

dative/ablative singular of caballus

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin. Compare Portuguese cavalo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʝo/ [kaˈβ̞a.ʝo] (most of Spain and Latin America)
IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʎo/ [kaˈβ̞a.ʎo] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʃo/ [kaˈβ̞a.ʃo] (Buenos Aires and environs)
IPA^(key): /kaˈbaʒo/ [kaˈβ̞a.ʒo] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Rhymes: -aʝo (most of Spain and Latin America)
Rhymes: -aʎo (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
Rhymes: -aʃo (Buenos Aires and environs)
Rhymes: -aʒo (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

Syllabification: ca‧ba‧llo

Noun

caballo m (plural caballos, feminine yegua, feminine plural yeguas)

horse
(chess) knight
(slang) heroin
Synonym: heroína
- 1994, José Ángel Mañas, chapter IX, in Historias del Kronen, Barcelona: Ediciones Destino, →ISBN, page 132:
  Un yonqui, de espaldas a la cámara, hace unas declaraciones: ahora, el que tiene billetes, se mete coca, o, si toma caballo, se lo mete con plata, lo fuma, ¿sabes?
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(slang) ox (strong clumsy person)
(slang, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico) master, hotshot

Hyponyms

caballo de carreras (“racehorse”)
caballo de guerra (“war horse”)
caballo de paso
caballo de silla (“saddle horse”)
caballo de tiro (“draft horse, draught horse, plow horse”)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Chavacano: caballo
Papiamentu: cabai
→ Alcozauca Mixtec: kuái̱
→ Aymara: kawallu
→ Bikol Central: kabayo
→ Cahuilla: kaváayu
→ Cebuano: kabayo
→ Central Huasteca Nahuatl: kauayoj
→ Central Nahuatl: cahuayoh
→ Chamicuro: kawali
→ Chaná: kuayó, cauáio (uncertain)
→ Chol: cawayuʼ
→ Classical Nahuatl: cahuāllo, caballo, cahualloh, cahuayo, cauallo, cavallo
→ Guaraní: kavaju
→ Ilocano: kabalio
→ Ivatan: kabayu
→ Kavalan: kbayu
→ Kapampangan: kabayu
→ Lake Miwok: kawáj
→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: cahua̱yoj
→ Mapudungun: kawell, kawellu
→ Maranao: kabayo
→ Mbyá Guaraní: kavaju
→ Nivaclé: cuvôyu
→ O'odham: kaviyu
→ Papantla Totonac: kawayu
→ Paraguayan Guaraní: kavaju
→ Pipil: kāwayu
→ Quechua: kawallu
→ Sayula Popoluca: cawa̱yu
→ Seri: caay
→ Tagalog: kabayo
→ Waray-Waray: kabayo
→ Yatzachi Zapotec: cabey
→ Yosondúa Mixtec: kuayu
→ Zoogocho Zapotec: cabayw

See also

Chess pieces in Spanish · piezas de ajedrez (layout · text)

rey	dama, reina	torre, roque	alfil	caballo	peón

Further reading

“caballo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
“caballo”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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