camboa

Galician

Alternative forms
  • gamboa, comboa

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, attested in Latin Middle Age local documents as combona, from a substrate Indo-European language, probably from Proto-Celtic *kumbā (“valley, basin”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kɑmˈboɐ]

Noun

camboa f (plural camboas)

  1. (historical) tidal fish-trap built with stone walls and stakes

Derived terms
  • Comboa

References
  • “camboa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “camboa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Portuguese

Noun

camboa f (plural camboas)

  1. small, artificial lake near the sea, that traps fish
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