fariña
See also: farina, fariñes, and fãrinã
Asturian
Alternative forms
- farina
Etymology
From Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
Noun
fariña f (uncountable)
- flour
Related terms
- fariñentu
- fariñosu
Galician
Fariña
Alternative forms
- faría (Galician-Asturian)
Etymology
From Galician-Portuguese / Old Portuguese farỹa, farinna, from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”). Cognate with Portuguese farinha, Asturian fariña, Spanish harina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈɾiɲa̝/
Noun
fariña f (plural fariñas)
- flour
- Uns bolos tan grandes como un pan de mesto , que eran de fariña de trigo escolleito.
- Some cakes as big as a bread of mesto, which were made of selected wheat flour.
- (informal, slang) blow, snow (cocaine)
- Synonyms: coca, cocaína
Related terms
- farináceo
- fariña centea (“rye flour”)
- fariña milla (“cornmeal”)
- fariña triga (“wheat flour”)
- fariñento
References
- “farina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “fariña” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “fariña” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “fariña” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “fariña” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faˈɾiɲa/ [faˈɾi.ɲa]
- Rhymes: -iɲa
- Syllabification: fa‧ri‧ña
Noun
fariña f (plural fariñas)
- Obsolete spelling of harina
- (South America) a type of thick mandioca flour
Further reading
- “fariña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014