febra

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See also: febră and febrą

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

febra f (plural febres)

  1. (Valencia) Alternative form of febre

Further reading

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfebra/
  • Hyphenation: feb‧ra

Adjective

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)

  1. febrile, feverish

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin fibra (fiber; boneless meat) (compare Spanish hebra); less probably, from an Arabic source.[1] Cognate with Portuguese fêvera.

Pronunciation

Noun

febra f (plural febras)

  1. fiber, thread
    • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:
      Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro
      You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread and stripes of gold
  2. lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Corriente, Federico (2008) “febra”, in Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords. Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician and Kindred Dialects (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 97), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin febris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛ.bra/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛbra
  • Syllabification: fe‧bra

Noun

febra f

  1. ague (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
  2. (colloquial) herpes
    Synonym: opryszczka
  3. (dated) malaria
    Synonyms: malaria, zimnica

Declension

Derived terms

adjective
adverb

Further reading

  • febra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • febra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

febra f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of febră