# carcás
## Galician
### Alternative forms

* carcán

### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carcaix, from Old French carquais, from Byzantine Greek ταρκάσιον (tarkásion), from Arabic تَرْكَاش (tarkāš), from Persian ترکش (tarkaš), from earlier تیرکش (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from تیر (tir, “arrow”) +‎ کش (kaš, “container”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaɾˈkas/

### Noun

carcás m (plural carcases)
* quiver
** c1350, K. M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 129:
    leuauã todos seus arquos tendidos et os carcayses bem chẽos de seetasthey had their bows ready and their quivers well loaded with arrows
** 1457, F. R. Tato Plaza, editor, Libro de notas de Álvaro Pérez, notario da Terra de Rianxo e Postmarcos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 171:Torre de Rriãjo. O que rreçebeu Gonçaluo Mariño de Fernando de Catoyra cõ a casa e fortalesa de Rriãjo. Primeyramẽte: Húa cadea de ferro cõ seu cãdado e çinco farroupeas e dúas esposas. Hũas coyraças. Tres huchas. Tres ballestas: J de aseyro, IJ de pao. Quatro baçinetes. Hũu trono cõ seu serujdor e hũu fole de póluora. Dos carcaixes de biratõos. Hũu torno de armar ballesta.Tower of Rianxo. What Gonçalvo Mariño received from Fernando of Catoira, together with the tower-house and fortress at Rianxo. First: an iron chain with its padlock and five fetters and two handcuffs. Some cuirasses. Three chests. Three crossbows: one of steel, two of wood. Four bascinets. A bombard with its server and a skin of powder. Two quivers of bolts. A winch for charging crossbows.
    Synonym: alxaba

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carcays”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “carcaix”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “carcays”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “carcax”, 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), “carcás”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carcaix, from Old French carquais, from Byzantine Greek ταρκάσιον (tarkásion), from Arabic تَرْكَاش (tarkāš), from Persian ترکش (tarkaš), from earlier تیرکش (tirkaš, “quiver; arrowslit”), from تیر (tir, “arrow”) +‎ کش (kaš, “container”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /kaʁˈka(j)s/ [kahˈka(ɪ̯)s]
* (Brazil) IPA: /kaʁˈka(j)s/ [kahˈka(ɪ̯)s]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /kaɾˈka(j)s/ [kaɾˈka(ɪ̯)s]
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /kaʁˈka(j)ʃ/ [kaχˈka(ɪ̯)ʃ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /kaɻˈka(j)s/ [kaɻˈka(ɪ̯)s]
* (Portugal) IPA: /kɐɾˈkaʃ/

### Noun

carcás m (plural carcases)
* quiver (arrow container)
    Synonyms: aljava, fáretra