charrúa

From Middle French charrue, from Latin carrūca.

• IPA^(key): /t͡saˈru.a̝/

charrúa f (plural charrúas)

1. (agriculture) carruca

• Charrúa

• charruar

From an older *charrũa (“foolish, silly”), from charro (“silly”) + -úa, feminine of -ún.

Felos from Maceda, whose attire is similar to that historically worn by the charrúas

• IPA^(key): /t͡saˈru.a̝/

charrúa f (plural charrúas)

1. a traditional character of the entroido (carnival) in Allariz

• charro

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “does it come from how a now extinct indigenous people that used to lie there was known”)

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈrua/ [t͡ʃaˈru.a]
• Rhymes: -ua
• Syllabification: cha‧rrú‧a

charrúa (plural charrúas)

1. (Latin America) Uruguayan
   • 2016 March, “Luis Suárez salva a Uruguay que rescata valioso empate como visitante ante Brasil”, in Emol‎:

     Y el delantero charrúa no defraudó.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   Synonym: uruguayo

charrúa m or f (plural charrúas)

1. (Latin America) Uruguayan

   Synonym: uruguayo

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