freba

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Asturian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾeba/,
  • Hyphenation: fre‧ba

Noun

freba f (plural frebes)

  1. fiber
  2. meat, fillet, steak
  3. (in the plural) strength, willpower (to continue)
    Ye vieyu pero tien entá frebes pa siguir.
    He is old but he still has strength to continue.

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Galician

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɾeba/
  • Rhymes: -eba
  • Hyphenation: fre‧ba

Noun

freba f (plural frebas)

  1. fiber, thread
  2. lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat
    • 1707, Salvador Francisco Roel, Entremés ao real e feliz parto da nosa raíña:
      Afonso: Ora partan o pernil.
      Albino: E mais tenbos boa freba.
      Afonso: "Let them cut the ham".
      Albino: "And it has good lean!"
      for all in this way

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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
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