raia

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese , probably the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Portuguese raia, Spanish raya.

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe (long, straight region of a single colour)
2. border (line separating regions)

   Synonym: fronteira

3. em dash (—)
4. ray (fish)

Related terms

• raiar

Etymology 2

Verb

raia

1. inflection of raer:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative
2. inflection of raiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

From Latin raia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: rà‧ia

Noun

raia f (plural raie)

1. ray, skate (fish)

   Synonym: razza

Anagrams

• -aria, arai, aria

Latin

Alternative forms

• raja (Medieval)

Etymology

Hypothetically from a Proto-Italic *rajjā (perhaps < *ragjā), with unknown further origin. Parallels can be found in Germanic: Middle Dutch rogghe/rochghe (Dutch rog) and Middle Low German rugge, from Western Proto-Germanic *rugg-, as well as Old English reohhe, Middle English reyhhe, reȝge, rygh all meaning "ray". Taken together with the Latin, these forms could point to a dialectal Proto-Indo-European *raK- ~ *ruK- (“ray”); however, the phonetic correspondences are unusual even within Germanic, and this could indicate a loanword or substrate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈrai̯.i̯a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈra.ja/,

Noun

raia f (genitive raiae); first declension

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• “raia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• raia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• raia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “raia”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 512–513

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ajɐ
• Hyphenation: rai‧a

Etymology 1

From the feminine of raio, or from Vulgar Latin *radia, from Latin radius; cf. also the verb raiar. Compare Galician raia, Spanish raya. Cf. also French raie.

A less likely etymology derives it from an earlier arraia, from Old Galician-Portuguese *arraia, from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Alternative forms

• arraia

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. stripe
2. border (the line or frontier area separating countries)

   Synonym: fronteira

3. (figuratively) limit
4. (colloquial) mistake

   Synonym: erro

Derived terms

• raiano

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

raia

1. inflection of raiar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

From Latin raia.

Noun

raia f (plural raias)

1. ray (a marine fish with a flat body)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رعایا (raya), from Arabic رَعَايَا (raʕāyā), plural of رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Noun

raia m (plural raiale)

1. rayah

Declension

Swahili

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raia

Wikipedia ^sw

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic رَعِيَّة (raʕiyya).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

raia (n class, plural raia) or raia (ma class, plural maraia)

1. citizen

   Synonym: mwananchi

2. subject (in a monarchy)

Derived terms

• uraia