/ɡaˈβaɾ/
OrixeFrom Old Galician-Portuguese gabar (13th century); either from Old Occitan gabar, from Old French gaber, or directly from Gothic or Suevic. From Proto-Germanic *gabbaną (“to mock, jest”).
- transitiveto praise, laud, extol
“Antes que probedes, non gabedes.” — Before you prove, don't praise.
- pronominalto brag, to boast
“Quen moito se gaba, ben delo lle falta” — He who boasts a lot [about something], lacks a lot of it
“Aquela noyte nõ foy y tal que rrijsse, nẽ sse gabasse do que fezera, tãto forõ todos maltreytos.” — That night there were none there to laugh or to boast about the deeds of the day, so mistreated they were
“tódolos outros diseron juntamente que esteueram no arroydo e que uiran matar ao irmao de Gonçaluo Roíz e seu cunhado e outros pyós e que uiram tyrar a Fernán de Sam Payo, e dyserom que ele fezera muyt” — all the rest said altogether that they were at the riot and that they saw how Gonzalvo Rois' brother, and his brother-in-law, and other pawns, were killed; and that they saw Fernán de Sampaio shooting
Formasgabo(first-person, present, singular) · gabei(first-person, preterite, singular) · gabado(participle, past) · gabar(impersonal, infinitive) · gabar(first-person, infinitive, singular) · gabares(infinitive, second-person, singular) · gabar(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, singular) · gabarmos(first-person, infinitive, plural) · gabardes(infinitive, plural, second-person) · gabaren(error-unrecognized-form, infinitive, personal, plural) · gabando(gerund) · gabado(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, singular) · gabado(first-person, masculine, participle, past, singular) · gabado(masculine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · gabados(error-unrecognized-form, masculine, participle, past, plural) · gabados(first-person, masculine, participle, past, plural, second-person) · gabada(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, singular) · gabada(feminine, first-person, participle, past, singular) · gabada(feminine, participle, past, second-person, singular) · gabadas(error-unrecognized-form, feminine, participle, past, plural)