sarabia

sarabia

Galician

Sarabia ("hail")

Alternative forms

• saraiba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [saˈɾaβjɐ], [saˈɾaβɪ.ɐ]

Noun

sarabia f (plural sarabias)

1. hail, hailstone (balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation)

   Synonyms: graínzo, pedra, pedrazo

   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo (ed.), 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, 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

• sarabela
• sarabiada
• sarabiar

References

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

1. Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “saravia”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos