esparaván

Attested since circa 1409. From Old French esparvain (French éparvin), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”).

• IPA^(key): [espaɾaˈβaŋ]

esparaván m (plural esparaváns)

1. spavin, bone spavin

• “esparauan” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “esparaván” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “esparaván” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “esparaván” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From esparver, from Provençal esparvier, via Frankish from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”) (since horses infected with spavin were said to walk like sparrows).

esparaván m (plural esparavanes)

1. spavin, bone spavin

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