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garbanzo

/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.96 in modern English

Syllables
gar-ban-zo
IPA
/ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.

noun

A seed of this plant; the chickpea.

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Etymology

From Spanish garbanzo, initially borrowed as garvance in the 17th c. and anglicized as calavance (“chickpea; any kind of bean or pulse”). The original garbanzo was re-established in the 19th c., primarily via American Spanish.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

garbanzos (plural)

Synonyms

garbanzo bean chickpea

Questions

How do you pronounce garbanzo?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɡɑɹˈbɑnzoʊ/.
What does garbanzo mean?
An edible pulse (Cicer arietinum), of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.
Where does garbanzo come from?
It is traced to Spanish.

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