pardal

• pardale [16th c.]

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

pardal (plural pardals)

1. (obsolete) A pard; a panther or leopard.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈdal/, [paɾˈð̞al]

pardal m (plural pardales)

1. sparrow

   Synonym: gurrión

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pardalus, from Ancient Greek πάρδαλος (párdalos), from πάρδαλις (párdalis, “panther”).

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

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pardal m (plural pardals)

1. sparrow

   Synonyms: teuladí, teulader, torredà

2. (Valencia) bird

   Synonym: ocell

• “pardal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “pardal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pardal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From pardo (“brown”) +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈðal/

pardal m (plural pardais)

1. house sparrow

   Synonym: gorrión

• Pardal

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

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

From pardo (“mottled”) +‎ -al.[1][2]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Homophone: pardau (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: par‧dal

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

1. sparrow