garganta

From Old Galician-Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”) and English craw (from Proto-Germanic *k(w)ragan(þ)-),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to shallow”).^[2][3] Alternatively, onomatopoeic.^[4]

• IPA^(key): [ɡaɾˈɣantɐ]

garganta f (plural gargantas)

1. (anatomy) throat

   Synonym: gorxa

2. (anatomy) gullet
3. gorge

   Synonym: desfiladeiro

• gargantada
• gargantilla

• gargal
• gargallada
• gargallo

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “garganta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “garganta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “garganta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “garganta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “garganta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): [ɡarˈɡanto]

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garganta f (plural gargantas)

1. (anatomy) throat

From Portuguese garganta and Spanish garganta.

garganta

1. neck
2. throat

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese garganta; from a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”). Alternatively, onomatopoeic.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: gar‧gan‧ta

garganta f (plural gargantas)

1. (anatomy) throat (posterior region of the oral cavity)
2. (anatomy) throat (anterior-superior part of the neck)
3. canyon, narrow (narrow passage between mountains)
4. (figuratively) voice
5. (figuratively) verbiage
6. (figuratively) boast

• North Moluccan Malay: gargantang
• Papiamentu: garganta

• “garganta”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “garganta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

From a substrate language *gʷr̥h₃gn̥t- (“throat”), cognate with Proto-Celtic *brāgants (“neck, throat”) and English craw (from Proto-Germanic *k(w)ragan(þ)-),^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”).^[2][3] Alternatively, onomatopoeic.^[4] Compare English gargle.

• IPA^(key): /ɡaɾˈɡanta/ [ɡaɾˈɣ̞ãn̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: gar‧gan‧ta

garganta f (plural gargantas)

1. (anatomy) throat
2. (geography) gorge

   Synonym: desfiladero

• cuello m

• esófago m
• laringe f
• tráquea f

• French: Gargantua (a character from François Rabelais's 16th-century pentalogy The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel.)
  • English: gargantuan
  • French: gargantuesque
• → Haitian Creole: gagann

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