banzáu

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) an irrigation  with water diverted from a river
 * 2) * María Esther García López, Toponimia: Valdés, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 9:
 * ; riégase con agua d’un banzáu.
 * ; it is irrigated with water from an irrigation canal.
 * 1) a  used to divert water from a river
 * 2) * Roberto González-Quevedo González, L’espaciu agrariu en Palacios del Sil, in 2002, Cultures, 11, Academia de la Llingua Asturiana, page 356:
 * L’oxetivu del banzáu que se fai nel ríu yía embalsar l’augua (chámase tamién banzáu a la masa d’augua que s’axunta pola mor de la paré de piedra).
 * The point of the diversion dam built in a river is to dam the water (the mass of water that collects because of the stone wall is also called banzáu).