baraza

From Swahili baraza.

baraza (plural barazas)

1. A council or assembly in parts of East Africa.

• bazaar

• braza

Unknown. From Old Galician-Portuguese baraça, probably from a substrate language or either a derivative from Latin vara. Unlikely from Arabic, given the absence of the article, as usual in older Arabic loanwords.^[1] Compare Portuguese baraço.

• IPA^(key): /baˈɾaθa̝/, (western) /baˈɾasa̝/

baraza f (plural barazas)

1. slender shoots of brooms and heaths
2. small cord; twine (strong thread)
   • 1376, E. Duro Peña (ed.), El Monasterio de San Esteban de Ribas de Sil. Ourense: Instituto "Padre Feijóo", page 323:

     hua carta escripta en purgameo de coyro signado do signal de Roy Gonçálvez notario e coengo que foy d'Ourense et seelada de çinquo seelos pendentes en baraças de linno pretas, dos quaes huun seelo delles o mayor era do dito sennor obispo et estaba dentro en él figurada hua figura de bispo con hua figura de bagoo na mao en çera branca e verde, et eno segundo seelo estava en él hua figura dagya en çera amarella que paresçía seer do dito cabidoo da iglesia dOurense, et o tereyro seelo en çera branca e verde et paresçía seer da audençia do dito sennor obispo et estava defigurado en él hua figura de escudo con hua figura de león, et o quarto seelo era do abbade do dito moesteyro et estava en él defigurado hua figura do abbade con hua figura de bagoo na mao, et o quinto seelo era en çera branca et dentro en él hua figura de pineiro

     a charter written in parchment, signed with the sign of Roi González, late notary and canon of Ourense, and sealed with five seals hanging from black linen twines; of these, one of these seals, the largest, was that of our lord the bishop and inside it was represented a figure of a bishop with the figure of a crosier in hand, in white and green wax; and in the second seal there was represented a figure of an eagle in yellow wax, and seemed to be that of the mentioned chapter of the cathedral church of Ourense; and the third seal was of white and green wax and seemed to be that of the justice tribunal of the bishop and in it it was represented a figure of a shield with a figure of a lion; and the fourth seal was that of the abbot of the mentioned monastery and in it it was represented a figure of the abbot with a figure of a crosier in hand; and the fifth seal was made in white wax and inside it a figure of a pine tree

   Synonyms: brenza, rello

3. sash, belt
   • 1403, M. M. Graña Cid, editor, Las órdenes mendicantes en el obispado de Mondoñedo. El convento de san Martín de Villaoriente (1374-1500): Estudios Mindonienses, page 237:

     mando aa mina sobrina, filla de Ruy Conde, que mora con Constansa Eanes, hunos çerçelos de coraes et a bolsa que se con elles et huna baraça.

     I bequeath my niece, daughter of Roi Conde, who lives with Constanza Eanes, some coral earrings and the bag that is together with them, and a sash

• barazal
• desembarazar
• embarazar

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “baraça”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “baraç”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “baraza”, 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), “baraza”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “baraza”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Seemingly from Omani Arabic برزة (barza, “sitting room”).

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baraza (ma class, plural mabaraza) or baraza (n class, plural baraza)

1. veranda
2. council, assembly

The Ma class is much more commonly used in modern Standard Swahili.