pardal

See also: pardál and Pardal

English

Alternative forms

• pardale [16th c.]

Etymology

From Latin pardalis, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλις (párdalis), from an unattested Old Iranian word; compare Persian پلنگ (palang), Pashto پړانګ (pṙâng).

Noun

pardal (plural pardals)

1. (obsolete) A pard; a panther or leopard.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:

     Wyld beasts in yron yokes he would compell; / The spotted Panther, and the tusked Bore, / The Pardale swift, and the Tigre cruell […]

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pərˈdal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paɾˈðal]

Noun

pardal m (plural pardals)

1. sparrow

Derived terms

• matar dos pardals d'un tret

Further reading

• “pardal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

Etymology

From pardo (“brown”) +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈðal/, [paɾˈðal], [paɾˈðaʊ̯]

Noun

pardal m (plural pardais)

1. house sparrow

   Synonym: gorrión

Derived terms

• Pardal

Further reading

• “pardal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

References

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “pardal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “pardal” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Portuguese

Pardal (Passer domesticus)

Etymology

From pardo (“mottled, mulatto”) + -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɐɾ.ˈðaɫ/
• IPA^(key): /paɾ.ˈdaw/
• Hyphenation: par‧dal
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

pardal m (plural pardais, feminine pardoca, feminine plural pardocas, feminine pardaloca, feminine plural pardalocas)

1. sparrow