debandar

• debaer, dobar

From Old Galician-Portuguese (13th century, debaar in a Galician charter), from Vulgar Latin *depānāre, from Latin pānus (“thread wound upon the bobbin”). For the evolution -ãar > -andar, compare achandar, rebandar, sandar.

Cognate with Portuguese dobar and Spanish devanar.

• IPA^(key): /de.βan.ˈdaɾ/

debandar (first-person singular present debando, first-person singular preterite debandei, past participle debandado)

1. (transitive) to coil, wind
   • 1281, Clarinda de Azevedo Maia (ed.), História do galego-português. Estado linguístico da Galiza e do Noroeste de Portugal do século XII ao século XVI (com referência á situação do galego moderno). Coimbra: I.N.I.C., page 133:

     Mando o fiado daſ eſtopaſ que teño debaado a Maria Suarez τ a Tereyga τ Maria Martinz.

     I give the tow yarn I have coiled to María Suárez and to Tereixa and María Martís"

2. (transitive) to unravel
3. (transitive) to clean and unravel intestines

• debandoira

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

Perhaps from de- +‎ bando +‎ -ar.

• Hyphenation: de‧ban‧dar

debandar (first-person singular present debando, first-person singular preterite debandei, past participle debandado)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to (cause to) flee disorderly, to stampede
2. (intransitive, military) to leave ranks
3. (intransitive) to disperse, to disband
4. (intransitive, figuratively) to leave, often simultaneously and in great numbers, a group, corporation or location

• debandada