febra

febra

See also: febră and febrą

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfebra/
• Hyphenation: feb‧ra

Adjective

febra (accusative singular febran, plural febraj, accusative plural febrajn)

1. febrile, feverish

Related terms

• febro

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Galician

Alternative forms

• freba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeβɾa̝/

Noun

febra f (plural febras)

1. fiber, thread
   • 1370, R. Lorenzo (ed.), Crónica troiana. A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 316:

     Et sabede que en todo o muro nõ ouuo y torre nẽ cubete nẽ arca hu algũ home podesse estar lidando en que nõ estouesse syna ou pendón de féuera cõ bandas d'ouro

     You must know that in all the wall there were neither tower nor turret nor brattice where a man can be fighting and where there were not a banner or standard of thread [of silk] and stripes of gold

2. lean, boneless meat, specially when referring to pork loin meat

Derived terms

• entrefrebado
• februdo

References

• “feuera” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “féuera” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “freba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “febra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “febra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin febris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛb.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɛbra
• Syllabification: feb‧ra

Noun

febra f

1. ague (intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits)
2. (colloquial) herpes

   Synonym: opryszczka

3. (dated) malaria

   Synonyms: malaria, zimnica

Declension

Declension of febra

	singular	plural
nominative	febra	febry
genitive	febry	febr
dative	febrze	febrom
accusative	febrę	febry
instrumental	febrą	febrami
locative	febrze	febrach
vocative	febro	febry

Derived terms

adjective

• febryczny

 

Related terms

adverb

• febrycznie

 

Further reading

• febra in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• febra in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfebra]

Noun

febra f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of febră