garapata

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Noun

garapata (plural garapatas)

  1. (US) A kind of wood tick.
    • 1873, United States. Navy Department, Annual Reports of the Navy Department, page 188:
      [] principally among the former were the garapatas, a vicious species of wood-tick, which swarm almost every leaf and plant growing near the ground []
    • 1890, Thomas Wallace Knox, The Boy Travellers in Mexico, page 508:
      One of the worst annoyances of their visit to Uxmal was that whenever they moved about they became covered with garapatas. The garapata is a tick so small that it is hardly perceptible to the naked eye, but it is capable of making a bite or sting like that of a red ant or a hot needle.

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta
  • IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡa.ɾaˈpa.ta]

Noun

garapata

  1. tick

Hiligaynon

Alternative forms

  • kalapata

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta

Noun

garapata

  1. tick

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish garrapata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡaɾaˈpata/, [ɡɐ.ɾɐˈpa.tɐ]
  • Hyphenation: ga‧ra‧pa‧ta

Noun

garapata (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜇᜉᜆ)

  1. tick

Derived terms

  • garapatahin
  • garapito
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.