abrazo

See also: abrazó

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish abrazar (“to embrace”), from a + brazo (“arm”), from Latin brachium.

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /əˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /ɑˈbɹɑˌsoʊ/, /əˈbɹɑˌzoʊ/, /æˈbɹæ.θo/^[1]^[2]

Noun

abrazo (plural abrazos)

A Latin American embrace. [First attested in the early 20th century.]^[1]

References

1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], →ISBN), page 8
↑ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 5

Galician

Noun

abrazo m (plural abrazos)

hug, embrace

Related terms

abrazar

Spanish

Etymology

From abrazar.

Pronunciation

(Castilian) IPA^(key): /aˈbɾaθo/, [aˈβɾaθo]

(Latin America) IPA^(key): /aˈbɾaso/, [aˈβɾaso]
(seseo merger) Homophone: abraso

Noun

abrazo m (plural abrazos)

hug, embrace

Derived terms

abrazote

Verb

abrazo

First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of abrazar.

Further reading

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

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