garza

garza f (plural garces)

1. heron (bird)

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

From Old Galician-Portuguese garça (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from a substrate language, probably Hispano-Celtic *cárcia; akin to Welsh crychydd, Breton kerc'heiz.[1]

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

• (standard) IPA^(key): [ˈɡaɾθɐ]
• (dialectal, Western) IPA^(key): [ˈħaɾs̺ɐ]

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

   Synonym: ghanza

• “garça” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “garça” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “garza” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “garza” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “garza” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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

garza f (plural garze)

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

   Synonym: garza idrofila

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

Borrowed from Spanish garza.

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

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

garza

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

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.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈɡaɾθa/ [ˈɡaɾ.θa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈɡaɾsa/ [ˈɡaɾ.sa]
• (Castilian)

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -aɾθa
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -aɾsa
• Syllabification: gar‧za

garza f (plural garzas)

1. heron

garza f

1. feminine singular of garzo

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