sabenla

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Galician

sables, sabenlas or zamborcas

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Etymology

Perhaps from a diminutive *sabelella from *sabŏlos, from Proto-Celtic *samos (summer) (compare sable, zamborca).

Pronunciation

Noun

sabenla f (plural sabenlas)

  1. allis shad (Alosa alosa)
    Synonyms: sable, tasca, zamborca
    • 1319, Ermelindo Portela Silva, editor, La región del obispado de Tuy en los siglos XII a XV. Una sociedad en expansión y en la crisis, Santiago: Tip. El Eco Franciscano, page 393:
      vos que ayades esa renda da dizima dos savees e do pescado que y sayr en vossa vida e despos vosa morte que fique a nos o dito arynno
      you should have this rent of a tenth of the shads and of the fish that is captured there, in your life, and after your death this sand island should return to us

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