A variant spelling or dialectal form of garbanzo, a chickpea plant and its edible legume seed.
From Spanish garbanzo, derived from Basque or unknown origin (etymology disputed among scholars). The word entered English through Spanish and Portuguese traders. Garvanzo is a less common variant spelling of the standard 'garbanzo.'
Garbanzo/garvanzo's origin is one of linguistics' unsolved mysteries—scholars trace it back through Spanish and Portuguese but hit a dead end in Basque, suggesting it came from an ancient language we don't even have records of.
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