Noun: sarabia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | sarabia |
| Plural f | sarabias |
Sample Sentences
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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) [1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 610:]
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Os escoleres quixeron
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Compol o diallo d’a zambra
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Con paliq’e cortesias
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Pro os demos repricaban
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Zimbrando sopapos ‘n eles
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Coma quen chobe saraiba. (the sorcerers wanted to
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appease the devil of the uproar
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with chitchat and courtesies
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but the demons replied
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delivering smacks on them
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as if raining hailstone) [1846, anonymous author, Carta de Cristobo a seu tio Don Alifonso de Santiago:]
Nouns inflected like sarabia
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown. Attested since 1370 (saravea); probably from a substrate language.
Verbs referencing "sarabia"
Portuguese Nouns
saraiva.
Translations