tarabela

15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese, either from Vulgar Latin *terebella, a diminutive of Latin terebra (“gimlet”),[1] or from a diminutive of trabs (thus possibly a doublet of treu).[2] Cognate with Portuguese taramela and Spanish tarabilla.

• IPA^(key): [taɾaˈβɛlɐ]

tarabela f (plural tarabelas)

1. (tool) gimlet, auger, drill

   Synonyms: binguelete, trade

   • 1485, Antonio López Ferreiro, editor, Galicia Histórica. Colección diplomática, Santiago: Tipografía Galaica, page 286:

     iten un escoupre, iten vn traado, iten vnna tarabela, iten dous bingueletes, iten duas serras de mao

     item, a chisel; item, a drill; item, an auger; item, two small drills; item, two handsaws

2. by extension, windmill blades or some other traditional devices composed by an axis and blades
3. device composed by an axis, blades and a tin, used as a scarecrow through the percussion of the wind moved blades and the tin
4. chattering damsel

   Synonym: cacarexo

5. (figurative) a fool; someone who changes his mind all the time

• tarabelo

Perhaps from Arabic تَكَلَّم (takallam, “to talk”); cognate with Portuguese tagarela.

• IPA^(key): /taɾaˈβɛla̝/

tarabela m or f by sense (plural tarabelas)

1. a chatty person, chatterbox
2. (music) percussion musical instrument build from a cane

   Synonym: castañola de cana

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