freba

freba

Galician

Alternative forms

• febra

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾeβa̝/

Noun

freba f (plural frebas)

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

Derived terms

• entrefrebado
• februdo

References

• “freba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “freba” 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