zafra

zafra

See also: Zafra

Galician

Etymology

Perhaps from Andalusian Arabic زُبْرَة‎ (zúbra, “anvil”).[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθafɾa/, (western) /ˈsafɾa/

Noun

zafra f (plural zafras)

1. anvil

   Synonyms: bigornia, engra

References

• “zafra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “zafra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “zafra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

1. Corriente, Federico (2008), “zafra³”, 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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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθafɾa/ [ˈθa.fɾa]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /ˈsafɾa/ [ˈsa.fɾa]
• Rhymes: -afɾa
• Syllabification: za‧fra

Etymology 1

Said to be from Arabic صَفْرَاء‎ (ṣafrāʾ, “yellow”) because of its being made of brass (Arabic صُفْر‎ (ṣufr), whence Spanish azófar). The resemblance with Arabic صَفَّى‎ (ṣaffā, “to filter”), مِصْفاة‎ (miṣfāh, “colander”) is then coincidental.

Noun

zafra f (plural zafras)

1. colander (kitchen utensil)
2. oil bottle

Etymology 2

From Arabic سَفْرة‎ (safra, “trip, voyage”), because itinerant workers would travel during the harvest season.

Noun

zafra f (plural zafras)

1. harvest, chiefly that of sugar cane
2. sugar fabrication
3. season (part of the year when something happens)
   • 2016 January, “Oropeza: "No tengo nada que reprochar a los peloteros"”, in El Nacional‎:

     "Dorante concluyó su zafra con record positivo.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

Derived terms

• zafral (adjective)

Further reading

• “zafra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014