esparaván

== Galician == === Etymology === Attested since circa 1409. From Old French esparvain (French éparvin), from Frankish *sparwō, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [espaɾaˈβaŋ] === Noun === esparaván m (plural esparaváns) spavin, bone spavin === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “esparauan”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “esparaván”, 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), “esparaván”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “esparaván”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Spanish == === Etymology === From esparver, from Provençal esparvier, via Frankish *sparwō from Proto-Germanic *sparwô, *sparwaz (“sparrow”) (since horses infected with spavin were said to walk like sparrows). === Noun === esparaván m (plural esparavanes) spavin, bone spavin === Further reading === “esparaván”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025