sarabia

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Galician

Sarabia ("hail")

Etymology 1

Unknown. Attested since 1370 (saravea); probably from a substrate language.^[1]

Alternative forms

saraiba

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): ,

Noun

sarabia f (plural sarabias)

hail, hailstone (balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation)
Synonyms: graínzo, pedra, pedrazo
- 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 610:
  Et alí veeriades uoar dardos et saetas, tã espesos cõmo a saráuea quando cae moyto espesa
  And you would see there darts and arrows fly, as thick as the hail when in falls thickly
- 1846, anonymous author, Carta de Cristobo a seu tio Don Alifonso de Santiago:
  Os escoleres quixeron
  Compol o diallo d’a zambra
  Con paliq’e cortesias
  Pro os demos repricaban
  Zimbrando sopapos ‘n eles
  Coma quen chobe saraiba.
  the sorcerers wanted to
  appease the devil of the uproar
  with chitchat and courtesies
  but the demons replied
  delivering smacks on them
  as if raining hailstone

Derived terms

References

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

^ Joan Coromines, José A Pascual (1983–1991) “saravia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Etymology 2

Verb

sarabia

third-person singular present indicative of sarabiar

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