gancho

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).[1] Doublet of ganzo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡant͡ʃʊ]

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. hook
2. kind of rake

• aganchar (“to climb”)
• enganchar (“to hook”)
• ganchelo (“having low horns”)
• reviragancho (“a curved stroke”, literally “overturning hook”)

• ganzo (“twig”)

• “gancho” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “gancho” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “gancho” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

• Hyphenation: gan‧cho

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. hook; peg; grapple
2. (Portugal) hairpin
3. (telephony) switchhook
4. (narratology) cliffhanger
5. (clothing) the central part of a pair of trousers to which the legs are sown
6. (boxing) a hook or uppercut

• enganchado
• enganchar

Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *ganskyos (“branch, twig”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡant͡ʃo/ [ˈɡãnʲ.t͡ʃo]
• Rhymes: -antʃo
• Syllabification: gan‧cho

gancho m (plural ganchos)

1. (tools) hook, peg
2. (clothing) clothes hanger
3. difficult situation
4. (boxing) hook
5. (boxing) uppercut
6. pulling power
7. attracting object or argument (true or fraudulent)
8. tout

• gancho al mentón
• gancho de derecha, gancho derecho (“right hook”)
• gancho de izquierda, gancho izquierdo (“left hook”)

• → Catalan: ganxo
• → Italian: gancio

• garfio
• anzuelo

• “gancho”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
• gancho on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

• chango