garza

See also: Garza

Asturian

Noun

garza f (plural garces)

1. heron (bird)

Galician

Alternative forms

• garcia (northeast)
• gharsa (eye dialect)
• garça (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese garça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a substrate language, probably Hispano-Celtic or Celtiberian *cárcia, from Proto-Celtic *korkiyos; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.

Cognate with Spanish garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça, and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡɑɾ.θɐ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡɑɾ.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħaɾθa/ [ˈħɑɾ.θɐ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada and seseo) /ˈħaɾsa/ [ˈħɑɾ.sɐ]

 

• Rhymes: -aɾθa

• Rhymes: -aɾθa
• Rhymes: -aɾsa

• Hyphenation: gar‧za

Noun

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

   Synonym: ghanza

References

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡar.d͡za/
• Rhymes: -ardza
• Hyphenation: gàr‧za

Etymology 1

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from French gaze, from Arabic غَزَّة (ḡazza, “Gaza”), a city associated with silk production.

Noun

garza f (plural garze)

1. gauze (fabric)
2. (medicine) gauze (fabric used as surgical dressing)

   Synonym: garza idrofila

Further reading

• garza¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish garza.

Noun

garza f (plural garze)

1. name of several species of heron:
   1. synonym of airone bianco maggiore
   2. synonym of airone cenerino
   3. synonym of airone rosso

Derived terms

• garzaia
• garzetta
• sgarza

Further reading

• garza² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

garza

1. inflection of garzare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.

Cognate with Galician garza, Mirandese garça, Asturian garza, Portuguese garça and (possibly) Catalan garsa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡaɾ.θa] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾsa/ [ˈɡaɾ.sa] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -aɾθa (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• Rhymes: -aɾsa (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: gar‧za

Noun

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

Derived terms

• garceta
• garcilla
• garza azulada
• garza blanca
• garza bruja
• garza ceniza
• garza dorada
• garza ganadera
• garza imperial
• garza morena
• garza real
• garza rojiza
• garza silbadora

Adjective

garza f

1. feminine singular of garzo

Further reading

• “garza”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025